idolâtre
\i.dɔ.lɑtʁ\
The verdict
“idolâtre” is uncommon French (frequency #56,026 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,026
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui adore les idoles et leur rend des honneurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-idolatre · idolâtre · French
idolâtre · rank #56,026 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,026
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH idoine
Nearest frequency peer: idoine (-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 « idolâtre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hôtelières
hôtelières
43,978 corpus weight
- idle
idle
43,977 corpus weight
- idoine
idoine
43,976 corpus weight
- idolâtre
idolâtre
43,975 corpus weight
- impulser
impulser
43,974 corpus weight
- inattaquable
inattaquable
43,973 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « idolâtre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idolâtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.dɔ.lɑtʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « idolâtre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
idolâtre is uncommon French at frequency #56,026 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \i.dɔ.lɑtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for idolâtre, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is idolâtre, spelled I-D-O-L-Â-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui adore les idoles et leur rend des honneurs.
- 2Qui rend un culte divin à des êtres vivants ou à des choses autres que des idoles.
- 3Qui aime quelqu’un avec excès, ou qui estime trop une chose, qui en raffole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how idolâtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les nations, les peuples idolâtres. — Rendre un culte idolâtre.
Donc, le sang de Naboth crie en vous poursuivant, Akhab de Samarie, et toi, vile idolâtre !
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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