paléographie
\pa.le.ɔ.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“paléographie” is uncommon French (frequency #69,290 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,290
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science des écritures anciennes, art de les déchiffrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paleographie · paléographie · French
paléographie · rank #69,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,290
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panis
Nearest frequency peer: panis (+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 « paléographie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ornières
ornières
30,715 corpus weight
- ourlets
ourlets
30,714 corpus weight
- ovo
ovo
30,713 corpus weight
- paléographie
paléographie
30,711 corpus weight
- panis
panis
30,710 corpus weight
- parapsychol…
parapsychologie
30,708 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paléographie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paléographie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.le.ɔ.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #69,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paléographie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paléographie is uncommon French at frequency #69,290 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.le.ɔ.ɡʁa.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Science des écritures anciennes, art de les déchiffrer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for paléographie in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is paléographie, spelled P-A-L-É-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Science des écritures anciennes, art de les déchiffrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paléographie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Traité de paléographie.
La paléographie a un domaine illimité, qui s'étend à toutes les parties du monde où, depuis quelque six millénaires, on a fixé le langage humain par des signes conventionnels destinés à le transmettre et à le conserver.
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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