photothèque
\fɔ.tɔ.tɛk\
The verdict
“photothèque” is uncommon French (frequency #77,783 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,783
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où sont classées et conservées des photographies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phototheque · photothèque · French
photothèque · rank #77,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,783
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH photocopier
Nearest frequency peer: photocopier (-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 « photothèque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- persuada
persuada
22,221 corpus weight
- photocopier
photocopier
22,219 corpus weight
- photothèque
photothèque
22,218 corpus weight
- piccoli
piccoli
22,217 corpus weight
- picotement
picotement
22,216 corpus weight
- Pignerol
Pignerol
22,215 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « photothèque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | photothèque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.tɔ.tɛk\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « photothèque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
photothèque is uncommon French at frequency #77,783 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔ.tɔ.tɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for photothèque, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 photothèque, spelled P-H-O-T-O-T-H-È-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu où sont classées et conservées des photographies.
- 2Collection de documents photographiques classés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how photothèque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Archives internationales de la danse sont constituées d’un musée, d’une bibliothèque, d’une photothèque, d’une salle de conférences et de deux salles d’expositions temporaires.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).