technicalité
\tɛk.ni.ka.li.te\
The verdict
“technicalité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Détail technique, simple formalité, considération d’ordre technique, point de détail.
Corpus desk
Index FR-technicalite · technicalité · French
technicalité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | technicalité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛk.ni.ka.li.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « technicalité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
technicalité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛk.ni.ka.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
technicalité has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is technicalité, spelled T-E-C-H-N-I-C-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Détail technique, simple formalité, considération d’ordre technique, point de détail.
- 2Qualité ou caractère de ce qui est technique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how technicalité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… on a invoqué une technicalité qui a froissé des enquêteurs de police …. — (« Le gouvernement Charest sabote l’UPAC, soupçonne le PQ », CyberPresse.ca, 14 septembre 2011)
Le porte-parole du Parti québécois en matière de Transports, Stéphane Bergeron, se demandait mercredi avant-midi si le recours à un concours d’entrée constituait une « technicalité » mise de l’avant « pour empêcher que les choses puissent se faire correctement ».
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.