fraterniser
\fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.ze\
The verdict
“fraterniser” is uncommon French (frequency #75,707 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,707
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se promettre ou se manifester mutuellement une amitié fraternelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fraterniser · fraterniser · French
fraterniser · rank #75,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,707
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fraternelles
Nearest frequency peer: fraternelles (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fraterniser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fragilisent
fragilisent
24,298 corpus weight
- fragmenter
fragmenter
24,297 corpus weight
- fraternelles
fraternelles
24,295 corpus weight
- fraterniser
fraterniser
24,294 corpus weight
- Frisco
Frisco
24,292 corpus weight
- fruste
fruste
24,290 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fraterniser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fraterniser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.ze\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fraterniser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fraterniser is uncommon French at frequency #75,707 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fʁa.tɛʁ.ni.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se promettre ou se manifester mutuellement une amitié fraternelle.".
fraterniser has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fraterniser, spelled F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se promettre ou se manifester mutuellement une amitié fraternelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fraterniser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À quelques pas de lui, le perfide timonier et le matelot du Saint-Ferdinand qui vantait naguère la puissance du capitaine parisien, fraternisaient avec les corsaires.
Déjà, depuis le début de l'année, des fédérations avaient lieu de village à village, de ville à ville. Les enfants, les jeunes filles, les vieillards couronnés d'épis de blé et de feuilles de chêne venaient fraterniser sous la voûte du ciel.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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