pétainiste
\pe.te.nist\
The verdict
“pétainiste” is uncommon French (frequency #79,656 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,656
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relié à la politique du maréchal Pétain, ou à ses partisans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petainiste · pétainiste · French
pétainiste · rank #79,656 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,656
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Péruviennes
Nearest frequency peer: Péruviennes (-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 « pétainiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pyrale
pyrale
20,348 corpus weight
- Péruviennes
Péruviennes
20,346 corpus weight
- pétainiste
pétainiste
20,345 corpus weight
- raconterez
raconterez
20,342 corpus weight
- Rainville
Rainville
20,341 corpus weight
- Ramsar
Ramsar
20,340 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pétainiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétainiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pe.te.nist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétainiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétainiste is uncommon French at frequency #79,656 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pe.te.nist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relié à la politique du maréchal Pétain, ou à ses partisans.".
pétainiste has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 pétainiste, spelled P-É-T-A-I-N-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relié à la politique du maréchal Pétain, ou à ses partisans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pétainiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait des sympathies pétainistes, je dirais même fascistes !
— C’était un beau salaud. Pétainiste à fond.
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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