phalanstère
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#92,040
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
phalanstère is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu où habiterait la commune sociétaire telle que l’avait imaginée le philosophe utopiste Charles Fourier. Pronounced \fa.lɑ̃s.tɛʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phalanstère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.lɑ̃s.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #92,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for phalanstère is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.lɑ̃s.tɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #92,040 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for phalanstère in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is phalanstère, spelled P-H-A-L-A-N-S-T-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lieu où habiterait la commune sociétaire telle que l’avait imaginée le philosophe utopiste Charles Fourier.
- 2Maison ou immeuble où habitent de nombreuses personnes.
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Frequency rank: #92,040 in French
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