négritude
\ne.ɡʁi.tyd\
The verdict
“négritude” is uncommon French (frequency #57,471 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,471
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courant littéraire et politique, rassemblant des écrivains noirs francophones qui revendiquent l’identité noire et sa culture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-negritude · négritude · French
négritude · rank #57,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,471
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH néerlandophone
Nearest frequency peer: néerlandophone (-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 « négritude »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- nuise
nuise
42,534 corpus weight
- nuova
nuova
42,533 corpus weight
- néandertali…
néandertaliens
42,532 corpus weight
- néerlandoph…
néerlandophone
42,531 corpus weight
- négritude
négritude
42,530 corpus weight
- odorantes
odorantes
42,528 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « négritude » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | négritude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ne.ɡʁi.tyd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « négritude » en français
Rare enough to double-check
négritude is uncommon French at frequency #57,471 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ne.ɡʁi.tyd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Courant littéraire et politique, rassemblant des écrivains noirs francophones qui revendiquent l’identité noire et sa culture.".
négritude doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is négritude, spelled N-É-G-R-I-T-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Courant littéraire et politique, rassemblant des écrivains noirs francophones qui revendiquent l’identité noire et sa culture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how négritude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une attitude et une méthode, encore une fois, un esprit, qui, significativement, fait moins la synthèse que la symbiose de la modernité et de la négrité. Je dis « négrité » et non négritude puisqu’il s’agit de l’esprit nègre plutôt que du vécu nègre.
Avec à la clé le début de son engagement censé « défendre la négritude » et mettre en garde contre « un deux poids deux mesures » dans l’indemnisation des descendants des victimes de crimes historiques.
Antonyms
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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