sentimentalité
\sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.ta.li.te\
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
- Segré
Segré
18,439 corpus weight
- sensi
sensi
18,438 corpus weight
- sensuelleme…
sensuellement
18,437 corpus weight
- sentimental…
sentimentalité
18,436 corpus weight
- servirons
servirons
18,434 corpus weight
- shad
shad
18,433 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sentimentalité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sentimentalité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃.ta.li.te\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #81,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sentimentalité » en français
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
- 1Affectation de sentiment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sentimentalité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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