postcoloniale
The verdict
“postcoloniale” is uncommon French (frequency #90,050 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,050
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de postcolonial.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postcoloniale · postcoloniale · French
postcoloniale · rank #90,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,050
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH postera
Nearest frequency peer: postera (+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 « postcoloniale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- polymorphes
polymorphes
9,954 corpus weight
- populeux
populeux
9,953 corpus weight
- postcolonia…
postcoloniale
9,951 corpus weight
- postera
postera
9,950 corpus weight
- potences
potences
9,949 corpus weight
- pouding
pouding
9,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « postcoloniale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postcoloniale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #90,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « postcoloniale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
postcoloniale is uncommon French at frequency #90,050 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de postcolonial.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for postcoloniale in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is postcoloniale, spelled P-O-S-T-C-O-L-O-N-I-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de postcolonial.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how postcoloniale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’il est capital aujourd’hui d’étudier la trajectoire et la pensée de James, c’est parce que, sans doute plus que celles de n’importe quel autre penseur noir radical, elles permettent de réexaminer les conflits opposant depuis de nombreuses années la théorie marxiste à la critique postcoloniale en interdisant tout recours à des solutions de compromis tell…
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).