fossilisés
\fɔ.si.li.ze\
The verdict
“fossilisés” is uncommon French (frequency #79,328 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,328
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de fossiliser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fossilises · fossilisés · French
fossilisés · rank #79,328 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,328
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forsyth
Nearest frequency peer: forsyth (-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 « fossilisés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- footix
footix
20,676 corpus weight
- forniquer
forniquer
20,675 corpus weight
- forsyth
forsyth
20,674 corpus weight
- fossilisés
fossilisés
20,673 corpus weight
- foudroie
foudroie
20,672 corpus weight
- fragmente
fragmente
20,671 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fossilisés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fossilisés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ.si.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fossilisés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fossilisés is uncommon French at frequency #79,328 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɔ.si.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de fossiliser.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fossilisés, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fossilisés, spelled F-O-S-S-I-L-I-S-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel de fossiliser.
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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