ploutocratie
\plu.to.kʁa.si\
The verdict
“ploutocratie” is uncommon French (frequency #86,027 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,027
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - État d’une société dans laquelle les plus riches exercent plus ou moins directement le pouvoir politique ou jouissent d’une influence prépondérante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ploutocratie · ploutocratie · French
ploutocratie · rank #86,027 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,027
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH plisser
Nearest frequency peer: plisser (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ploutocratie”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- plenty
plenty
13,977 corpus weight
- pleurerais
pleurerais
13,976 corpus weight
- plisser
plisser
13,975 corpus weight
- ploutocratie
ploutocratie
13,974 corpus weight
- pneumopathie
pneumopathie
13,973 corpus weight
- pof
pof
13,972 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ploutocratie” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ploutocratie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plu.to.kʁa.si\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #86,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ploutocratie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ploutocratie is uncommon French at frequency #86,027 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \plu.to.kʁa.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État d’une société dans laquelle les plus riches exercent plus ou moins directement le pouvoir politique ou jouissent d’une influence prépondérante.".
ploutocratie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ploutocratie, spelled P-L-O-U-T-O-C-R-A-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1État d’une société dans laquelle les plus riches exercent plus ou moins directement le pouvoir politique ou jouissent d’une influence prépondérante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ploutocratie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les demoiselles et les dames de la ploutocratie américaine ont atteint les dernières limites de cette sorte d’émancipation, elles métamorphosent leurs père et mari en accumulateurs de millions, qu’elles gaspillent follement.
De cent façons, New York et sa somptueuse ploutocratie répétaient Venise : dans la magnificence de son architecture, de ses arts, de ses édifices, dans le farouche acharnement de ses luttes politiques, dans sa suprématie commerciale et maritime.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ploutocratie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.