paléolithique supérieur
The verdict
“paléolithique supérieur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 23
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Période préhistorique comprise entre le paléolithique moyen et l’épipaléolithique (de 35 000 à 10 000 ans avant notre ère).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paléolithique supérieur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.le.ɔ.li.tik sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paléolithique supérieur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for paléolithique supérieur is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.le.ɔ.li.tik sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Période préhistorique comprise entre le paléolithique moyen et l’épipaléolithique (de 35 000 à 10 000 ans avant notre ère).".
No misspelling variants are generated for paléolithique supérieur 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 paléolithique supérieur, spelled P-A-L-É-O-L-I-T-H-I-Q-U-E- -S-U-P-É-R-I-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Période préhistorique comprise entre le paléolithique moyen et l’épipaléolithique (de 35 000 à 10 000 ans avant notre ère).
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-L-É-O-L-I-T-H-I-Q-U-E- -S-U-P-É-R-I-E-U-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pa.le.ɔ.li.tik sy.pe.ʁjœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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