paléo-
\pa.le.o\
The verdict
“paléo-” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a prefix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Préfixe indiquant un rapport avec ce qui est ancien, vieux ou disparu depuis longtemps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paleo · paléo- · French
paléo- · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paléo- |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prefix |
| IPA | \pa.le.o\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “paléo-” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
paléo- is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aprefix, transcribed \pa.le.o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
paléo- has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is paléo-, spelled P-A-L-É-O--.
Definition
- 1Préfixe indiquant un rapport avec ce qui est ancien, vieux ou disparu depuis longtemps.
- 2Préfixe indiquant un rapport avec ce qui est ancien, vieux ou disparu depuis longtemps.
- 3Préfixe indiquant un rapport avec ce qui est ancien, vieux ou disparu depuis longtemps.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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