responsibility

\ɹɪ.ˌspɑn.sə.ˈbɪl.ə.ti\

/\ɹɪ.ˌspɑn.sə.ˈbɪl.ə.ti\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « responsibility » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for responsibility
PropertyValue
Headwordresponsibility
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɹɪ.ˌspɑn.sə.ˈbɪl.ə.ti\
Letters14
Frequency rank#84,248
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « responsibility » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).responsibilitytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « responsible » (#84,249), « reposter » (#84,246), « retravaillée » (#84,250). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « responsibility » est au #84,248. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Responsabilité, devoir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how responsibility appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. With great power comes great responsibility.
  2. 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

irresponsibility

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "responsibility"?
"responsibility" is spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ɹɪ.ˌspɑn.sə.ˈbɪl.ə.ti\.
What does "responsibility" mean?
As a noun, "responsibility" means: Responsabilité, devoir.
How do you pronounce "responsibility"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "responsibility" is \ɹɪ.ˌspɑn.sə.ˈbɪl.ə.ti\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "responsibility", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list