sédentarité
\se.dɑ̃.ta.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“sédentarité” is uncommon French (frequency #51,769 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,769
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité d’être sédentaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sedentarite · sédentarité · French
sédentarité · rank #51,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,769
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH survivront
Nearest frequency peer: survivront (-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 « sédentarité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surpassent
surpassent
48,235 corpus weight
- surplomb
surplomb
48,234 corpus weight
- survivront
survivront
48,233 corpus weight
- sédentarité
sédentarité
48,232 corpus weight
- sélectionne…
sélectionneurs
48,231 corpus weight
- Taha
Taha
48,230 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sédentarité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sédentarité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.dɑ̃.ta.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sédentarité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sédentarité is uncommon French at frequency #51,769 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \se.dɑ̃.ta.ʁi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sédentarité in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is sédentarité, spelled S-É-D-E-N-T-A-R-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité d’être sédentaire.
- 2Mode de vie dans un lieu d’habitation fixe.
- 3Fait de rester trop sédentaire, en ne se déplaçant pas assez, en tant que problème de santé publique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sédentarité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Finalement, c’est de son chien Milou qu’il [Tintin] est le plus proche, à cela près que Milou ne rêve que de paresseuse sédentarité et peste contre l’humeur aventureuse de son maître.
Son grand corps est long, encore mince bien que la sédentarité inhérente à son métier l’ait quelque peu empâté.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).