sacerdotal
\sa.sɛʁ.dɔ.tal\
The verdict
“sacerdotal” is uncommon French (frequency #59,618 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,618
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au sacerdoce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sacerdotal · sacerdotal · French
sacerdotal · rank #59,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,618
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH rôties
Nearest frequency peer: rôties (-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 « sacerdotal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réunissons
réunissons
40,386 corpus weight
- révélatrices
révélatrices
40,385 corpus weight
- rôties
rôties
40,384 corpus weight
- sacerdotal
sacerdotal
40,383 corpus weight
- Sacks
Sacks
40,382 corpus weight
- sacy
sacy
40,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sacerdotal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacerdotal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sa.sɛʁ.dɔ.tal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sacerdotal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sacerdotal is uncommon French at frequency #59,618 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \sa.sɛʁ.dɔ.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au sacerdoce.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sacerdotal in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sacerdotal, spelled S-A-C-E-R-D-O-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au sacerdoce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sacerdotal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faut-il dire que précisément parce que l’église avait une autorité supérieure à toute autre autorité, le moyen-âge, dans tout ce qui n’a pas été écrit par une plume sacerdotale, a été porté à faire acte d’opposition à l’église ?
Arrivé dans ce local, M. le curé se dépouilla de son surplis, qu’il accrocha dans une armoire ad hoc déjà encombrée de vêtements sacerdotaux et dont il referma la porte sur moi.
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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