paléontologie
\pa.le.ɔ̃.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“paléontologie” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,657. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,657
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Discipline scientifique consacrée à l’étude des organismes ayant vécu au cours des temps géologiques passés, principalement par l’analyse des fossiles et des traces d’activité biologique conservés ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paléontologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.le.ɔ̃.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #34,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paléontologie” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around paléontologie (IPA \pa.le.ɔ̃.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,657 among 248,534 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Discipline scientifique consacrée à l’étude des organismes ayant vécu au cours des temps géologiques passés, principalement par l’analyse des fossiles et des traces d’activité biologique conservés ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for paléontologie, with forms such as "apléontologie", "paleontologie", and "palléontologie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is paléontologie, spelled P-A-L-É-O-N-T-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Discipline scientifique consacrée à l’étude des organismes ayant vécu au cours des temps géologiques passés, principalement par l’analyse des fossiles et des traces d’activité biologique conservés dans les couches géologiques.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apléontologie
- paleontologie
- palléontologie
- paloéntologie
- palénotologie
- paléonntologie
- paléonotlogie
- paléontloogie
- paléontolgoie
- paléontollogie
- paléontologei
- paléontologgie
- paléontoloige
- paléontoolgie
- paléonttologie
- paléotnologie
- paélontologie
- plaéontologie
- ppaléontologie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paléontologie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “paléontologie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-L-É-O-N-T-O-L-O-G-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pa.le.ɔ̃.tɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.