légaliste
\le.ɡa.list\
The verdict
“légaliste” is uncommon French (frequency #74,173 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,173
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au légalisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legaliste · légaliste · French
légaliste · rank #74,173 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,173
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH luthiers
Nearest frequency peer: luthiers (-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 « légaliste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lupe
Lupe
25,831 corpus weight
- lutherie
lutherie
25,830 corpus weight
- luthiers
luthiers
25,829 corpus weight
- légaliste
légaliste
25,828 corpus weight
- madrigaux
madrigaux
25,827 corpus weight
- Mahieu
Mahieu
25,826 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « légaliste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légaliste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \le.ɡa.list\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « légaliste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
légaliste is uncommon French at frequency #74,173 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \le.ɡa.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au légalisme.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for légaliste, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 légaliste, spelled L-É-G-A-L-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au légalisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how légaliste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car, si « légalisme » signifie que l’obéissance à la Loi sert à l’obtention du salut, alors le nomisme d’alliance est un nomisme légaliste.
Les réponses de quelques pays manifestent davantage de cohérence : c’est le cas de la Belgique faiblement légaliste et tolérante à la fraude fiscale, et dans l’autre sens, de l’Irlande et du Portugal à la fois légalistes et rigoristes.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).