postmoderne
\pɔst.mo.dɛʁn\
The verdict
“postmoderne” is uncommon French (frequency #51,670 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,670
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au postmodernisme, mouvement artistique qui engage une rupture ironique avec les conventions anhistoriques du modernisme artistique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postmoderne · postmoderne · French
postmoderne · rank #51,670 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,670
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH porcherie
Nearest frequency peer: porcherie (-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 « postmoderne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poncelet
poncelet
48,334 corpus weight
- poncho
poncho
48,333 corpus weight
- porcherie
porcherie
48,332 corpus weight
- postmoderne
postmoderne
48,331 corpus weight
- PPs
PPs
48,330 corpus weight
- preparation
preparation
48,329 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « postmoderne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postmoderne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔst.mo.dɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « postmoderne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
postmoderne is uncommon French at frequency #51,670 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔst.mo.dɛʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for postmoderne in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is postmoderne, spelled P-O-S-T-M-O-D-E-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au postmodernisme, mouvement artistique qui engage une rupture ironique avec les conventions anhistoriques du modernisme artistique.
- 2Relatif à la postmodernité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how postmoderne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'architecture postmoderne.
Un peu d'art et d'élégance dans ce monde numéricoscientifique, postmoderne et prérobotique.
Synonyms
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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