périphrase
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#71,836
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
périphrase is aFrenchnoun. It means: Figure de style qui consiste à expliquer par une locution un nom, un objet, un lieu… ou dont on se sert pour exprimer ce qu’on ne veut pas dire directement, par exemple: L’oiseau de Jupiter pour l’... Pronounced \pe.ʁi.fʁaz\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | périphrase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁi.fʁaz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for périphrase is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.ʁi.fʁaz\. Corpus data places it at rank #71,836 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for périphrase in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is périphrase, spelled P-É-R-I-P-H-R-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Figure de style qui consiste à expliquer par une locution un nom, un objet, un lieu… ou dont on se sert pour exprimer ce qu’on ne veut pas dire directement, par exemple: L’oiseau de Jupiter pour l’aigle, les portes du matin pour l’orient, la ville lumière pour Paris, le roi soleil pour Louis XIV.
- 2Construction grammaticale qui, dans les langues analytiques, utilise plusieurs éléments au lieu d’un seul signifiant pour exprimer un signifié.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #71,836 in French
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