primate
\pʁi.mat\
The verdict
“primate” is uncommon French (frequency #50,435 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,435
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal appartenant au taxon des Primates
Corpus desk
Index FR-primate · primate · French
primate · rank #50,435 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,435
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH procédait
Nearest frequency peer: procédait (+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 « primate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- postiers
postiers
49,569 corpus weight
- pouet
pouet
49,568 corpus weight
- primate
primate
49,566 corpus weight
- procédait
procédait
49,565 corpus weight
- proférer
proférer
49,564 corpus weight
- proférées
proférées
49,563 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « primate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | primate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.mat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « primate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
primate is uncommon French at frequency #50,435 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁi.mat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Animal appartenant au taxon des Primates".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for primate, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is primate, spelled P-R-I-M-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Animal appartenant au taxon des Primates
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how primate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et pourquoi l’approche évolutionniste serait-elle scientifique lorsqu’elle est appliquée à l’ensemble des espèces vivantes et non scientifique lorsqu’elle est appliquée au primate humain ?
Parmi les heureux bénéficiaires du vaccin figure Karen, une femelle orang-outan qui était devenue en 1994 le premier primate non humain à subir une opération à cœur ouvert.
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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