matriarcat
\mat.ʁi.jaʁ.ka\
The verdict
“matriarcat” is uncommon French (frequency #78,628 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,628
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Régime social où le pouvoir est exercé par les femmes, par les mères de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matriarcat · matriarcat · French
matriarcat · rank #78,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,628
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH massique
Nearest frequency peer: massique (-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 « matriarcat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mascarpone
mascarpone
21,375 corpus weight
- massique
massique
21,374 corpus weight
- matriarcat
matriarcat
21,373 corpus weight
- Mayet
Mayet
21,371 corpus weight
- measures
measures
21,370 corpus weight
- menais
menais
21,369 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « matriarcat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matriarcat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mat.ʁi.jaʁ.ka\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #78,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « matriarcat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
matriarcat is uncommon French at frequency #78,628 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mat.ʁi.jaʁ.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Régime social où le pouvoir est exercé par les femmes, par les mères de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for matriarcat in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is matriarcat, spelled M-A-T-R-I-A-R-C-A-T.
Definition
- 1Régime social où le pouvoir est exercé par les femmes, par les mères de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how matriarcat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ce temps-là, nous étions tous plus ou moins orphelins de père : ces Messieurs étaient morts ou au front, ceux qui restaient, diminués, dévirilisés, cherchaient à se faire oublier de leurs fils ; c’était le règne des mères ; Bénard nous reflétait les vertus négatives de ce matriarcat.
Synonyms
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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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