responsibility
\ɹɪ.ˌspɑn.sə.ˈbɪl.ə.ti\
The verdict
“responsibility” is uncommon French (frequency #84,248 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,248
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Responsabilité, devoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-responsibility · responsibility · French
responsibility · rank #84,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,248
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH responsible
Nearest frequency peer: responsible (+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 « responsibility »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reportera
reportera
15,756 corpus weight
- reposter
reposter
15,755 corpus weight
- responsibil…
responsibility
15,753 corpus weight
- responsible
responsible
15,752 corpus weight
- retravaillée
retravaillée
15,751 corpus weight
- revoyais
revoyais
15,750 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « responsibility » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | responsibility |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹɪ.ˌspɑn.sə.ˈbɪl.ə.ti\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #84,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « responsibility » en français
Rare enough to double-check
responsibility is uncommon French at frequency #84,248 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɹɪ.ˌspɑn.sə.ˈbɪl.ə.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Responsabilité, devoir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for responsibility in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is responsibility, spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Responsabilité, devoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how responsibility appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With great power comes great responsibility.
Blockchains, however, are distributed databases that often seek to achieve decentralisation by replacing a unitary actor with many different players. The lack of consensus as to how (joint-) controllership ought to be defined hampers the allocation of responsibility and accountability.
Antonyms
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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