paternaliste
\pa.tɛʁ.na.list\
The verdict
“paternaliste” is uncommon French (frequency #51,030 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,030
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au paternalisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paternaliste · paternaliste · French
paternaliste · rank #51,030 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,030
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pasquale
Nearest frequency peer: Pasquale (-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 « paternaliste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parterres
parterres
48,974 corpus weight
- partirons
partirons
48,973 corpus weight
- Pasquale
Pasquale
48,972 corpus weight
- paternaliste
paternaliste
48,971 corpus weight
- pendantes
pendantes
48,970 corpus weight
- pensionnats
pensionnats
48,969 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paternaliste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paternaliste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.tɛʁ.na.list\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paternaliste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paternaliste is uncommon French at frequency #51,030 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.tɛʁ.na.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au paternalisme.".
paternaliste has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is paternaliste, spelled P-A-T-E-R-N-A-L-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au paternalisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paternaliste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plusieurs entreprises aux XIXᵉ et XXᵉ siècles ont développé un management paternaliste qui, bien souvent, apportait aux ouvriers un certain nombre d’avantages sociaux comme l’éducation, le logement, les soins médicaux, etc., avantages bien peu répandus alors.
Par ces différentes créations (cités ouvrières, coopérative), les papeteries Mougeot ont mené une politique "paternaliste", conception selon laquelle les entreprises jouaient, vis-à-vis de ceux sur qui elle s'exerce, un rôle analogue à celui d'un père vis-à-vis de ses enfants.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).