privacité
\pʁi.va.si.te\
The verdict
“privacité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait d’avoir une vie privée, de l’intimité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-privacite · privacité · French
privacité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | privacité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁi.va.si.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « privacité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
privacité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁi.va.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fait d’avoir une vie privée, de l’intimité.".
Zero misspellings are on record for privacité in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is privacité, spelled P-R-I-V-A-C-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Fait d’avoir une vie privée, de l’intimité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how privacité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les pays occidentaux, le sentiment de la privacité est lié à la présence d’une clôture.
Ignorée par la plupart des historiens de l'architecture, l'oeuvre de Restif de La Bretonne est d'une importance capitale pour comprendre non seulement l'architecture du XVIIIe siècle, mais aussi l'invention des notions de privacité et de publicité, de discipline et de surveillance, ainsi que les relations biopolitiques modernes entre sexe, sexualité et es…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.