Palestrina

\pa.lɛs.tʁi.na\

/\pa.lɛs.tʁi.na\/ name

The verdict

“Palestrina” is uncommon French (frequency #87,921 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#87,921
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune d’Italie et évêché suburbicaire de Rome dans la région du Latium.

Corpus desk

Index FR-palestrina · Palestrina · French

Palestrina · rank #87,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #87,921
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH paillis

Nearest frequency peer: paillis (-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 « Palestrina »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Palestrina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Palestrina
PropertyValue
HeadwordPalestrina
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\pa.lɛs.tʁi.na\
Letters10
Frequency rank#87,921
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Palestrina » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Palestrinatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « paillis » (#87,920), « paléolithiques » (#87,922), « pailleté » (#87,919). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Palestrina » est au #87,921. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Palestrina is uncommon French at frequency #87,921 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pa.lɛs.tʁi.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune d’Italie et évêché suburbicaire de Rome dans la région du Latium.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Palestrina in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Palestrina, spelled P-A-L-E-S-T-R-I-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune d’Italie et évêché suburbicaire de Rome dans la région du Latium.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Palestrina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Segni, […] ville d’Italie, dans l’état de l’Église, & dans la campagne de Rome, à 12 lieues au sud-est de Rome, & à 6 au sud-est de Palestrina, avec un évêché qui ne relève que du pape.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Palestrina"?
"Palestrina" is spelled P-A-L-E-S-T-R-I-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.lɛs.tʁi.na\.
What does "Palestrina" mean?
As a proper noun, "Palestrina" means: Commune d’Italie et évêché suburbicaire de Rome dans la région du Latium.
How do you pronounce "Palestrina"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Palestrina" is \pa.lɛs.tʁi.na\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Palestrina" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Palestrina", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list