portraitiste
\pɔʁ.tʁe.tist\
The verdict
“portraitiste” is uncommon French (frequency #50,430 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,430
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peintre de portraits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portraitiste · portraitiste · French
portraitiste · rank #50,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,430
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poissonnerie
Nearest frequency peer: poissonnerie (-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 « portraitiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pluviôse
pluviôse
49,575 corpus weight
- poissonnerie
poissonnerie
49,572 corpus weight
- portraitiste
portraitiste
49,571 corpus weight
- poseront
poseront
49,570 corpus weight
- postiers
postiers
49,569 corpus weight
- pouet
pouet
49,568 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « portraitiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portraitiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tʁe.tist\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #50,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « portraitiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
portraitiste is uncommon French at frequency #50,430 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tʁe.tist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peintre de portraits.".
Zero misspellings are on record for portraitiste in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is portraitiste, spelled P-O-R-T-R-A-I-T-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Peintre de portraits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how portraitiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un peintre est invariablement enfermé dans la catégorie des paysagistes, des portraitistes, des peintres d’histoire, de marine ou de genre.
Il a épousé en secondes noces la portraitiste française Micheline Roquebrue en 1975.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).