oligocène

/\ɔ.li.ɡɔ.sɛn\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#61,749

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

oligocène is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui concerne l’Oligocène, couche de terrain tertiaire qui se trouve comprise entre l’Éocène et le Miocène. Pronounced \ɔ.li.ɡɔ.sɛn\.

Key facts for oligocène
PropertyValue
Headwordoligocène
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɔ.li.ɡɔ.sɛn\
Letters9
Frequency rank#61,749
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of oligocène in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for oligocène is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.li.ɡɔ.sɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #61,749 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui concerne l’Oligocène, couche de terrain tertiaire qui se trouve comprise entre l’Éocène et le Miocène.".

No misspelling variants are generated for oligocène in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is oligocène, spelled O-L-I-G-O-C-È-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui concerne l’Oligocène, couche de terrain tertiaire qui se trouve comprise entre l’Éocène et le Miocène.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #61,749 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "oligocène"?
"oligocène" is spelled O-L-I-G-O-C-È-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.li.ɡɔ.sɛn\.
What does "oligocène" mean?
As an adj, "oligocène" means: Qui concerne l’Oligocène, couche de terrain tertiaire qui se trouve comprise entre l’Éocène et le Miocène.
How do you pronounce "oligocène"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "oligocène" is \ɔ.li.ɡɔ.sɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "oligocène" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.