punissabilité
\py.ni.sa.bi.li.te\
The verdict
“punissabilité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est punissable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-punissabilite · punissabilité · French
punissabilité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | punissabilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \py.ni.sa.bi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
punissabilité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \py.ni.sa.bi.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualité de ce qui est punissable.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for punissabilité, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is punissabilité, spelled P-U-N-I-S-S-A-B-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est punissable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how punissabilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
- l'infraction doit être punie selon la loi des deux Etats, selon le principe de double incrimination, dans le sens où il s'agit d'une " double punissabilité ", que les législations des deux États classent ou non l'infraction dans la même catégorie ou la décrivent ou non dans des termes identiques […]
PUNIR, c’est servir de châtiment, c’est châtier ou corriger. Il existe donc des hommes punissables et des crimes punissables. Se pose aussi la question de la « punissabilité » qui suppose la responsabilité et désigne alors le caractère de ce qui est punissable.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.