périphrases
\pe.ʁi.fʁaz\
The verdict
“périphrases” is uncommon French (frequency #90,079 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,079
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de périphrase.
Corpus desk
Index FR-periphrases · périphrases · French
périphrases · rank #90,079 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,079
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pénalisées
Nearest frequency peer: pénalisées (-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 « périphrases »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pédalage
pédalage
9,926 corpus weight
- pédopsychia…
pédopsychiatrie
9,925 corpus weight
- pénalisées
pénalisées
9,923 corpus weight
- périphrases
périphrases
9,922 corpus weight
- pétoncles
pétoncles
9,921 corpus weight
- quartette
quartette
9,918 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « périphrases » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | périphrases |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁi.fʁaz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #90,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « périphrases » en français
Rare enough to double-check
périphrases is uncommon French at frequency #90,079 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ʁi.fʁaz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de périphrase.".
Zero misspellings are on record for périphrases in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is périphrases, spelled P-É-R-I-P-H-R-A-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de périphrase.
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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