mésolithique
\me.zɔ.li.tik\
The verdict
“mésolithique” is uncommon French (frequency #93,016 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,016
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au Mésolithique, âge de pierre compris entre le Paléolithique et le Néolithique, soit entre environ 10 000 et 5 000 ans avant J.-C.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mesolithique · mésolithique · French
mésolithique · rank #93,016 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,016
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mygales
Nearest frequency peer: mygales (-2 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 « mésolithique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Moussy
Moussy
6,990 corpus weight
- Moutet
Moutet
6,988 corpus weight
- mygales
mygales
6,987 corpus weight
- mésolithique
mésolithique
6,985 corpus weight
- naissons
naissons
6,981 corpus weight
- nanotubes
nanotubes
6,980 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mésolithique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mésolithique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.zɔ.li.tik\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #93,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mésolithique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mésolithique is uncommon French at frequency #93,016 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \me.zɔ.li.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au Mésolithique, âge de pierre compris entre le Paléolithique et le Néolithique, soit entre environ 10 000 et 5 000 ans avant J.-C.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mésolithique in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mésolithique, spelled M-É-S-O-L-I-T-H-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au Mésolithique, âge de pierre compris entre le Paléolithique et le Néolithique, soit entre environ 10 000 et 5 000 ans avant J.-C.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mésolithique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les industries archéolithiques et mésolithiques du silex présentent, comme caractères généraux, que des instruments faits d'éclats retouchés de diverses manières ; […].
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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