période glaciaire
\pe.ʁjɔd ɡla.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“période glaciaire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Intervalle de temps au cours duquel les calottes glaciaires s’étendaient sur des surfaces plus vastes qu’actuellement, souvent associé à une baisse globale des températures.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | période glaciaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁjɔd ɡla.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “période glaciaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for période glaciaire is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.ʁjɔd ɡla.sjɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Intervalle de temps au cours duquel les calottes glaciaires s’étendaient sur des surfaces plus vastes qu’actuellement, souvent associé à une baisse globale des températures.".
No misspelling variants are generated for période glaciaire in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is période glaciaire, spelled P-É-R-I-O-D-E- -G-L-A-C-I-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Intervalle de temps au cours duquel les calottes glaciaires s’étendaient sur des surfaces plus vastes qu’actuellement, souvent associé à une baisse globale des températures.
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Using “période glaciaire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-É-R-I-O-D-E- -G-L-A-C-I-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.