périgée
French, noun\pe.ʁi.ʒe\
périgée is spelled P-É-R-I-G-É-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 87,470th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Périgée is a French masculine noun meaning “perigee (point in the orbit of any object)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sur une orbite ayant pour foyer la Terre, point le plus proche de celle-ci ; autrement dit, le périapside…”.
What does périgée mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineperigee (point in the orbit of any object)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sur une orbite ayant pour foyer la Terre, point le plus proche de celle-ci ; autrement dit, le périapside d’une orbite géocentrique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of périgée
- périgées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce périgée?
- \pe.ʁi.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to périgée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is périgée in French?
périgée appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).