éocène
\e.ɔ.sɛn\
The verdict
“éocène” is uncommon French (frequency #62,736 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,736
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte à l’Éocène, première période de l’ère tertiaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eocene · éocène · French
éocène · rank #62,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,736
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH Éliane
Nearest frequency peer: Éliane (-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 « éocène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- électoralis…
électoralistes
37,268 corpus weight
- élevez
élevez
37,267 corpus weight
- Éliane
Éliane
37,266 corpus weight
- éocène
éocène
37,265 corpus weight
- éprouvais
éprouvais
37,264 corpus weight
- équatorienne
équatorienne
37,263 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « éocène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | éocène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.ɔ.sɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « éocène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
éocène is uncommon French at frequency #62,736 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.ɔ.sɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui se rapporte à l’Éocène, première période de l’ère tertiaire.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for éocène, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is éocène, spelled É-O-C-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte à l’Éocène, première période de l’ère tertiaire.
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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