podestat
\pɔ.dɛs.ta\
The verdict
“podestat” is uncommon French (frequency #83,258 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,258
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre du premier magistrat dans certaines villes d’Italie au Moyen-Âge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-podestat · podestat · French
podestat · rank #83,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,258
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PLFSS
Nearest frequency peer: PLFSS (-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 « podestat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plastics
plastics
16,745 corpus weight
- PLFSS
PLFSS
16,744 corpus weight
- podestat
podestat
16,743 corpus weight
- polynésienn…
polynésiennes
16,742 corpus weight
- pompeuse
pompeuse
16,741 corpus weight
- popa
popa
16,739 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « podestat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | podestat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.dɛs.ta\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « podestat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
podestat is uncommon French at frequency #83,258 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.dɛs.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for podestat, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is podestat, spelled P-O-D-E-S-T-A-T.
Definition
- 1Titre du premier magistrat dans certaines villes d’Italie au Moyen-Âge.
- 2Titre d’un magistrat (maire ou conseiller) dans certaines villes d’Italie.
- 3Magistrat d’une ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how podestat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le podestat, après 1497, siège donc, comme par le passé, à Torcello.
Au nom de la noblesse, Balian de Sidon refusa : les droits de la couronne de Jérusalem, dont se réclamait Frédéric II, restaient limités par les droits, franchises et privilèges des barons, et la Syrie franque n’avait pas à supporter le bon plaisir d’un podestat impérial qui se permettrait, comme à Beyrouth, d’attaquer les liges sans jugement préalable de…
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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