Holocène
\ɔ.lɔ.sɛn\
The verdict
“Holocène” is uncommon French (frequency #86,793 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,793
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Époque géologique s’étendant sur les 10 000 dernières années.
Corpus desk
Index FR-holocene · Holocène · French
Holocène · rank #86,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,793
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH historic
Nearest frequency peer: historic (-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 « Holocène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- highlight
highlight
13,212 corpus weight
- hippodromes
hippodromes
13,210 corpus weight
- historic
historic
13,209 corpus weight
- Holocène
Holocène
13,208 corpus weight
- homéostasie
homéostasie
13,207 corpus weight
- houles
houles
13,206 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Holocène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Holocène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.lɔ.sɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Holocène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Holocène is uncommon French at frequency #86,793 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.lɔ.sɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Holocène in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 Holocène, spelled H-O-L-O-C-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Époque géologique s’étendant sur les 10 000 dernières années.
- 2Holocène ancien ou Holocène inférieur : Le Mésolithique.
- 3Holocène récent ou Holocène supérieur : L’Âge des métaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Holocène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La richesse en grands mammifères herbivores, bien plus importante au début de l’Holocène, laisse à penser pour certains qu'ils auraient pu entretenir à eux seuls des forêts semi-ouvertes (de type forêt-parc) rien que par leurs activités d’abroutissement et de sélection végétale.
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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