principat
\pʁɛ̃.si.pa\
The verdict
“principat” is uncommon French (frequency #87,039 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,039
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dignité impériale chez les Romains antiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-principat · principat · French
principat · rank #87,039 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,039
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prestidigitat…
Nearest frequency peer: prestidigitation (-2 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 « principat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pouic
pouic
12,967 corpus weight
- praticienne
praticienne
12,965 corpus weight
- prestidigit…
prestidigitation
12,964 corpus weight
- principat
principat
12,962 corpus weight
- procéderons
procéderons
12,959 corpus weight
- producer
producer
12,957 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « principat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | principat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛ̃.si.pa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « principat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
principat is uncommon French at frequency #87,039 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɛ̃.si.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for principat, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is principat, spelled P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-T.
Definition
- 1Dignité impériale chez les Romains antiques.
- 2Forme de gouvernement correspondant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how principat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et ne sais-tu pas que, sous le principat de Tibère, un jeune chevalier se fit passer pour le Jupiter cornu des Égyptiens et obtint sous ce déguisement les faveurs d’une dame illustre, trop vertueuse pour rien refuser aux dieux.
Il a vu l'émergence d'un type de régime politique sans précédent, où l'exercice personnel du pouvoir l'emporte, mais que les Romains appellent toujours la République car en subsistent des institutions et des traditions. De plus en plus, ils le nomment « principat » en référence aux pouvoirs du prince, premier des citoyens et premier des sénateurs. Les Mod…
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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