sentimentalité

\sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.ta.li.te\

/\sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.ta.li.te\/ noun

The verdict

“sentimentalité” is uncommon French (frequency #81,565 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,565
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affectation de sentiment.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sentimentalite · sentimentalité · French

sentimentalité · rank #81,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,565
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sensuellement

Nearest frequency peer: sensuellement (-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 « sentimentalité »

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 « sentimentalité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sentimentalité
PropertyValue
Headwordsentimentalité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.ta.li.te\
Letters14
Frequency rank#81,565
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sentimentalité » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sentimentalitétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « sensuellement » (#81,564), « sensi » (#81,563), « servirons » (#81,567). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sentimentalité » est au #81,565. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sentimentalité is uncommon French at frequency #81,565 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.ta.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affectation de sentiment.".

No misspelling variants are generated for sentimentalité in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sentimentalité, spelled S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Affectation de sentiment.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Donc, plus de fausse pudeur ni de sensiblerie de mauvais aloi. Plus de sentimentalités stériles, dommageables, le plus souvent exagérées, et dont ne sont même plus dupes les passants — aux coups de chapeaux convenus devant les corbillards.
  2. Peut-être l’affectation est-elle comme la sentimentalité, dont Alain-Fournier a dit en substance que c’en est quand ce n’est pas réussi et que c’est de l’art, du drame et de la vie quand ça l’est.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sentimentalité"?
"sentimentalité" is spelled S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T-A-L-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.ta.li.te\.
What does "sentimentalité" mean?
As a noun, "sentimentalité" means: Affectation de sentiment.
How do you pronounce "sentimentalité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sentimentalité" is \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.ta.li.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sentimentalité" come from?
"sentimentalité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sentimentalité", 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