matriarcal
\ma.tʁi.jaʁ.kal\
The verdict
“matriarcal” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au matriarcat, aux sociétés ou le pouvoir (la terre) est détenu par les femmes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matriarcal · matriarcal · French
matriarcal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matriarcal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.tʁi.jaʁ.kal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « matriarcal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
matriarcal is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.tʁi.jaʁ.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for matriarcal in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented 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 matriarcal, spelled M-A-T-R-I-A-R-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au matriarcat, aux sociétés ou le pouvoir (la terre) est détenu par les femmes.
- 2Dominé par les femelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how matriarcal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Gitxsan sont une nation matriarcale, et la mère de l’enfant est membre de la bande Gitanmaax, indique Tracey Woods, qui est chef depuis quatre ans.
En Europe occidentale, les sociétés germano-scandinaves sont encore, dans leurs profondeurs, matriarcales et matrilinéaires.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.