péridot
\pe.ʁi.do\
The verdict
“péridot” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété gemme de forstérite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peridot · péridot · French
péridot · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | péridot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁi.do\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
péridot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ʁi.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété gemme de forstérite.".
péridot has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is péridot, spelled P-É-R-I-D-O-T.
Definition
- 1Variété gemme de forstérite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how péridot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une langueur sauvage s’ajoutait à la beauté de ces visages ardents, et c’était l’Orient encore que rappelaient les coiffures compliquées — ces tresses noires alourdies par les boules d’ambre, les bijoux de nacre et les péridots.
Mais la beauté de cette jeune fille déjà femme fait exception et mériterait quelque robe ancienne en velours de Gênes que je ne craindrais pas d’alourdir encore avec des incrustations ou des pendeloques de merveilleuses pierres démodées comme le péridot, la marcassite et l’incomparable labrador.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.