archaeology
\ˌɑː.kiˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒi\
The verdict
“archaeology” is uncommon French (frequency #86,422 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,422
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archéologie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-archaeology · archaeology · French
archaeology · rank #86,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,422
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH araki
Nearest frequency peer: araki (-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 « archaeology »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aprile
aprile
13,582 corpus weight
- Aprilia
Aprilia
13,581 corpus weight
- araki
araki
13,580 corpus weight
- archaeology
archaeology
13,579 corpus weight
- archivées
archivées
13,578 corpus weight
- argotique
argotique
13,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « archaeology » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | archaeology |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌɑː.kiˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « archaeology » en français
Rare enough to double-check
archaeology is uncommon French at frequency #86,422 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˌɑː.kiˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Archéologie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for archaeology, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is archaeology, spelled A-R-C-H-A-E-O-L-O-G-Y.
Definition
- 1Archéologie.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).