secondarité
\sə.ɡɔ̃.da.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“secondarité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité intrinsèque de ce qui est secondaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-secondarite · secondarité · French
secondarité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | secondarité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sə.ɡɔ̃.da.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « secondarité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
secondarité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sə.ɡɔ̃.da.ʁi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualité intrinsèque de ce qui est secondaire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for secondarité in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is secondarité, spelled S-E-C-O-N-D-A-R-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité intrinsèque de ce qui est secondaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how secondarité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est cependant un fait incontestable que depuis près d’un siècle qu’il est question dans ses décrets de fêtes primaires et secondaires, elle ne s’est jamais occupée de déterminer en quoi consiste la primauté et la secondarité des fêtes […]
Pour Derrida aussi, la secondarité est essentielle puisque la philosophie est pratique de l’écriture. Sans doute, cette multiple reconnaissance de la philosophie comme une pratique secondaire n’a-t-elle jusqu’ici guère plus d’unité que nomonale.
Antonyms
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.