pharisien
\fa.ʁi.zjɛ̃\
The verdict
“pharisien” is uncommon French (frequency #76,890 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,890
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre d’un courant du peuple juif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pharisien · pharisien · French
pharisien · rank #76,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,890
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peshmergas
Nearest frequency peer: peshmergas (-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 « pharisien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perdions
perdions
23,114 corpus weight
- performeur
performeur
23,113 corpus weight
- peshmergas
peshmergas
23,112 corpus weight
- pharisien
pharisien
23,111 corpus weight
- physicienne
physicienne
23,110 corpus weight
- pica
pica
23,108 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pharisien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pharisien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.ʁi.zjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pharisien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pharisien is uncommon French at frequency #76,890 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.ʁi.zjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
pharisien doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pharisien, spelled P-H-A-R-I-S-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Membre d’un courant du peuple juif.
- 2Personne qui n’a que l’ostentation de la piété ou de la vertu, généralement de façon hypocrite.
- 3Personne qui, sûre de soi, juge de haut, avec orgueil et dureté, les actions ou les opinions des autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pharisien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces gens-là, en vertu de leur observation rigide-de la loi ainsi grossie de leurs traditions, se regardoient comme plus saints que les autres, & se séparoient de ceux qu’ils traitoient de pécheurs & de profanes, avec qui ils ne vouloient pas seulement manger ou boire ; c’est de-là que leur est venu le nom de Pharisiens, du mot de pharas, qui signifie sépa…
Les pharisiens affectaient de se distinguer par la sainteté extérieure de leur vie.
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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