fossilisé
\fɔ.si.li.ze\
The verdict
“fossilisé” is uncommon French (frequency #83,890 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,890
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a subi une fossilisation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fossilise · fossilisé · French
fossilisé · rank #83,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,890
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forçais
Nearest frequency peer: forçais (-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 « fossilisé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fob
fob
16,115 corpus weight
- formal
formal
16,113 corpus weight
- forçais
forçais
16,112 corpus weight
- fossilisé
fossilisé
16,111 corpus weight
- Fourmies
Fourmies
16,110 corpus weight
- Fourniret
Fourniret
16,109 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fossilisé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fossilisé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.si.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fossilisé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fossilisé is uncommon French at frequency #83,890 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔ.si.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fossilisé, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fossilisé, spelled F-O-S-S-I-L-I-S-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a subi une fossilisation.
- 2Qui a vieilli moralement, figé dans ses habitudes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fossilisé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a pu suivre d'une façon précise l'histoire post-glaciaire dans le Nord de l'Europe, où de nombreux végétaux à demi fossilisés des tourbières ont permis de suivre couche par couche l'évolution des végétaux principaux.
Mais, quoique les dames en question, vieilles filles hystériques et fossilisées, prudes et bigotes, considérassent leur illustre parent comme un démon lâché sur la terre, les liens du sang furent plus forts que la mauvaise opinion qu’elles avaient de lui, et elles soulagèrent discrètement sa pauvreté.
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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