photojournaliste

\fo.to.ʒuʁ.na.list\

/\fo.to.ʒuʁ.na.list\/ noun

The verdict

“photojournaliste” is uncommon French (frequency #62,519 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#62,519
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Journaliste usant du support photographique pour communiquer l’événement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-photojournaliste · photojournaliste · French

photojournaliste · rank #62,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #62,519
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH physics

Nearest frequency peer: physics (+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 « photojournaliste »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « photojournaliste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for photojournaliste
PropertyValue
Headwordphotojournaliste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fo.to.ʒuʁ.na.list\
Letters16
Frequency rank#62,519
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « photojournaliste » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).photojournalistetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « physics » (#62,520), « physiologiquement » (#62,521), « perco » (#62,516). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « photojournaliste » est au #62,519. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

photojournaliste is uncommon French at frequency #62,519 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fo.to.ʒuʁ.na.list\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Journaliste usant du support photographique pour communiquer l’événement.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for photojournaliste, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is photojournaliste, spelled P-H-O-T-O-J-O-U-R-N-A-L-I-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Journaliste usant du support photographique pour communiquer l’événement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how photojournaliste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La photojournaliste Sophie Garcia a assisté à la première projection.
  2. C’est comme ça que j’ai appris le métier de photojournaliste !

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "photojournaliste"?
"photojournaliste" is spelled P-H-O-T-O-J-O-U-R-N-A-L-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fo.to.ʒuʁ.na.list\.
What does "photojournaliste" mean?
As a noun, "photojournaliste" means: Journaliste usant du support photographique pour communiquer l’événement.
How do you pronounce "photojournaliste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "photojournaliste" is \fo.to.ʒuʁ.na.list\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "photojournaliste", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 16 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list