magistrate
\ma.ʒis.tʁat\
The verdict
“magistrate” is uncommon French (frequency #50,342 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,342
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Officière civile revêtue d’une autorité administrative.
Corpus desk
Index FR-magistrate · magistrate · French
magistrate · rank #50,342 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,342
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH macaque
Nearest frequency peer: macaque (-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 « magistrate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lynne
lynne
49,663 corpus weight
- léguée
léguée
49,661 corpus weight
- macaque
macaque
49,660 corpus weight
- magistrate
magistrate
49,659 corpus weight
- Makoto
Makoto
49,657 corpus weight
- malia
malia
49,656 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « magistrate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | magistrate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʒis.tʁat\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « magistrate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
magistrate is uncommon French at frequency #50,342 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʒis.tʁat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
magistrate has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is magistrate, spelled M-A-G-I-S-T-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Officière civile revêtue d’une autorité administrative.
- 2Celle qui rend la justice ou la requiert (juge, procureuse ou conseillère).
- 3Juge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how magistrate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le préambule de la motion lue par la première magistrate Aurélie Charillon, et approuvée à l’unanimité par le conseil municipal la semaine dernière, est sans ambiguïté.
A quand les notaresses, les huissières, les avouées et les magistrates ? Ça presse !
Synonyms
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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