pélagie
\pe.la.ʒi\
The verdict
“pélagie” is uncommon French (frequency #67,038 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,038
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de méduses, de polypiers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pelagie · pélagie · French
pélagie · rank #67,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,038
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH périples
Nearest frequency peer: périples (+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 « pélagie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pun
pun
32,967 corpus weight
- punissent
punissent
32,966 corpus weight
- purgée
purgée
32,965 corpus weight
- pélagie
pélagie
32,963 corpus weight
- périples
périples
32,962 corpus weight
- quercus
quercus
32,959 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pélagie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pélagie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.la.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pélagie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pélagie is uncommon French at frequency #67,038 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.la.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de méduses, de polypiers.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pélagie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pélagie, spelled P-É-L-A-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Genre de méduses, de polypiers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pélagie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on sait que certains bancs peuvent s’étaler sur douze kilomètres de long, entre dix et cent mètres de fond et compter jusqu’à 100 individus au mètre carré, la présence de la venimeuse pélagie au large de la Grande Bleue a de quoi inquiéter.
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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