philistin
\fi.lis.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“philistin” is uncommon French (frequency #93,089 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,089
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Philistins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-philistin · philistin · French
philistin · rank #93,089 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,089
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pharmaprix
Nearest frequency peer: Pharmaprix (-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 « philistin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- persuadant
persuadant
6,915 corpus weight
- Petrova
Petrova
6,914 corpus weight
- Pharmaprix
Pharmaprix
6,913 corpus weight
- philistin
philistin
6,912 corpus weight
- photographi…
photographient
6,910 corpus weight
- piedra
piedra
6,909 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « philistin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | philistin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fi.lis.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « philistin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
philistin is uncommon French at frequency #93,089 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fi.lis.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
philistin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is philistin, spelled P-H-I-L-I-S-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Philistins.
- 2Qualifie une personne, un comportement ignorant, fat, béotien…
- 3Qualifie une personne non religieuse, athée…
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how philistin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La poterie philistine se caractérise par une influence mycénienne prédominante.
Il [son frère aîné] est pour moi le type achevé du philistin ; non qu’il soit tout à fait insensible car il a toujours eu – à l’instar de mon père – certains goûts artistiques et littéraires […], non qu’il soit absolument dénué d’humanité […], mais à cause de son côté timoré, pantouflard, sentimental, sans passion, déiste sans mysticisme, bien-pensant san…
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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