pédocriminel
\pe.dɔ.kʁi.mi.nɛl\
The verdict
“pédocriminel” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la criminalité exercée à l’encontre des enfants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pedocriminel · pédocriminel · French
pédocriminel · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | pédocriminel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pe.dɔ.kʁi.mi.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pédocriminel is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pe.dɔ.kʁi.mi.nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la criminalité exercée à l’encontre des enfants.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pédocriminel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pédocriminel, spelled P-É-D-O-C-R-I-M-I-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la criminalité exercée à l’encontre des enfants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pédocriminel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La sanctuarisation des plus jeunes comme la judiciarisation des actes pédocriminels ne datent que des années 1980. L’Église n’est pas la seule institution où, jusqu’à récemment, on ne faisait pas un drame quand un enfant avait été tripoté.
Selon ce rapport, recensant plus de 400 victimes de telles violences dans l’archevêché de Munich et Freising qu’il a dirigé entre 1977 et 1982, le cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, avant qu’il ne devienne pape, était au courant du passé pédocriminel d’un prêtre, Peter Hullermann, même s’il l’a toujours nié.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.