périhélie
\pe.ʁi.e.li\
The verdict
“périhélie” is uncommon French (frequency #74,306 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,306
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sur une orbite ayant pour foyer le Soleil, le point le plus proche de celui-ci ; autrement dit, le périapside d’une orbite héliocentrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perihelie · périhélie · French
périhélie · rank #74,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,306
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pénalisent
Nearest frequency peer: pénalisent (-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 « périhélie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pubiens
pubiens
25,699 corpus weight
- pucelles
pucelles
25,698 corpus weight
- pul
pul
25,697 corpus weight
- pénalisent
pénalisent
25,696 corpus weight
- périhélie
périhélie
25,695 corpus weight
- Qasim
Qasim
25,694 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « périhélie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | périhélie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁi.e.li\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « périhélie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
périhélie is uncommon French at frequency #74,306 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ʁi.e.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sur une orbite ayant pour foyer le Soleil, le point le plus proche de celui-ci ; autrement dit, le périapside d’une orbite héliocentrique.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for périhélie, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is périhélie, spelled P-É-R-I-H-É-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Sur une orbite ayant pour foyer le Soleil, le point le plus proche de celui-ci ; autrement dit, le périapside d’une orbite héliocentrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how périhélie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est en hiver que la Terre se trouve au périhélie de son orbite. La Terre arrive à son périhélie.
Le périhélie de cette comète est à 400 millions de kilomètres du Soleil.
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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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