périphéries
\pe.ʁi.fe.ʁi\
The verdict
“périphéries” is uncommon French (frequency #51,683 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,683
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de périphérie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peripheries · périphéries · French
périphéries · rank #51,683 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,683
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pump
Nearest frequency peer: pump (-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 « périphéries »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- psychopatho…
psychopathologie
48,321 corpus weight
- psychédéliq…
psychédéliques
48,320 corpus weight
- pump
pump
48,319 corpus weight
- périphéries
périphéries
48,318 corpus weight
- quarantième
quarantième
48,317 corpus weight
- quasimodo
quasimodo
48,316 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « périphéries » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | périphéries |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁi.fe.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « périphéries » en français
Rare enough to double-check
périphéries is uncommon French at frequency #51,683 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ʁi.fe.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de périphérie.".
périphéries doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is périphéries, spelled P-É-R-I-P-H-É-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de périphérie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how périphéries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elles sont incontournables pour le chercheur qui travaille sur la France face aux crises et aux guerres des périphéries européennes.
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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