primate
\pʁi.mat\
The verdict
“primate” is an uncommon French word, ranked #50,435 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,435
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Animal appartenant au taxon des Primates
| 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) |
Where “primate” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for primate is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁi.mat\. Corpus data places it at rank #50,435 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “primate”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-I-M-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁi.mat\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.