pergélisol
\pɛʁ.ʒe.li.sɔl\
The verdict
“pergélisol” is uncommon French (frequency #70,932 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,932
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couche de sol gelé en permanence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pergelisol · pergélisol · French
pergélisol · rank #70,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,932
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pelt
Nearest frequency peer: pelt (-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 « pergélisol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pecs
pecs
29,071 corpus weight
- pelt
pelt
29,070 corpus weight
- pergélisol
pergélisol
29,069 corpus weight
- persiennes
persiennes
29,068 corpus weight
- pestiférés
pestiférés
29,066 corpus weight
- phalle
phalle
29,065 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pergélisol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pergélisol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ʒe.li.sɔl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pergélisol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pergélisol is uncommon French at frequency #70,932 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.ʒe.li.sɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Couche de sol gelé en permanence.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pergélisol in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pergélisol, spelled P-E-R-G-É-L-I-S-O-L.
Definition
- 1Couche de sol gelé en permanence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pergélisol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’exposition en adret provoque la disparition du pergélisol et celui-ci s’y réduit comme une peau de chagrin et s’amincit.
Mais il ne s’agit jamais de pergélisol continu. De fait, seule la taïga russe est affectée par ce phénomène.
This word in other languages
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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