âge de pierre

/\ɑʒ də pjɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

âge de pierre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Période de la préhistoire où l’humanité n’a eu pour instruments de travail et de guerre que des pierres ou des silex façonnés. Elle eut lieu entre 2,5 millions d’années av. J.-C. et 2500 av. J.-C. Pronounced \ɑʒ də pjɛʁ\.

Key facts for âge de pierre
PropertyValue
Headwordâge de pierre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑʒ də pjɛʁ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

âge de pierre is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for âge de pierre is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑʒ də pjɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for âge de pierre in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is âge de pierre, spelled Â-G-E- -D-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Période de la préhistoire où l’humanité n’a eu pour instruments de travail et de guerre que des pierres ou des silex façonnés. Elle eut lieu entre 2,5 millions d’années av. J.-C. et 2500 av. J.-C.
  2. 2
    Époque primitive.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "âge de pierre"?
"âge de pierre" is spelled Â-G-E- -D-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑʒ də pjɛʁ\.
What does "âge de pierre" mean?
As a noun, "âge de pierre" means: Période de la préhistoire où l’humanité n’a eu pour instruments de travail et de guerre que des pierres ou des silex façonnés. Elle eut lieu entre 2,5 millions d’années av. J.-C. et 2500 av. J.-C.
How do you pronounce "âge de pierre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "âge de pierre" is \ɑʒ də pjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "âge de pierre" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.