Palestrina
\pa.lɛs.tʁi.na\
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
- oxygéner
oxygéner
12,083 corpus weight
- pailleté
pailleté
12,082 corpus weight
- paillis
paillis
12,081 corpus weight
- Palestrina
Palestrina
12,080 corpus weight
- paléolithiq…
paléolithiques
12,079 corpus weight
- pamphile
pamphile
12,078 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Palestrina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Palestrina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pa.lɛs.tʁi.na\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Palestrina » en français
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
- 1Commune d’Italie et évêché suburbicaire de Rome dans la région du Latium.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Palestrina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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