primogéniture
\pʁi.mɔ.ʒe.ni.tyʁ\
The verdict
“primogéniture” is uncommon French (frequency #81,457 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,457
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Priorité des droits de succession et d’héritage de l’aîné par rapport aux autres frères et sœurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-primogeniture · primogéniture · French
primogéniture · rank #81,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,457
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prieto
Nearest frequency peer: prieto (-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 « primogéniture »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pressurisée
pressurisée
18,547 corpus weight
- prieto
prieto
18,545 corpus weight
- primogénitu…
primogéniture
18,544 corpus weight
- priées
priées
18,543 corpus weight
- proscription
proscription
18,542 corpus weight
- provider
provider
18,541 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « primogéniture » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | primogéniture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.mɔ.ʒe.ni.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #81,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « primogéniture » en français
Rare enough to double-check
primogéniture is uncommon French at frequency #81,457 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁi.mɔ.ʒe.ni.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Priorité des droits de succession et d’héritage de l’aîné par rapport aux autres frères et sœurs.".
Zero misspellings are on record for primogéniture in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is primogéniture, spelled P-R-I-M-O-G-É-N-I-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Priorité des droits de succession et d’héritage de l’aîné par rapport aux autres frères et sœurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how primogéniture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Royauté est indivisible, et déléguée héréditairement à la race régnante de mâle en mâle, par ordre de primogéniture, à l’exclusion perpétuelle des femmes et de leur descendance.
Le droit à l’héritage, par primogéniture préférablement, parut d’un avantage si manifeste que l’ancien ordre social tendit toujours à généraliser cette institution.
Antonyms
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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