péristyle
\pe.ʁi.stil\
The verdict
“péristyle” is uncommon French (frequency #60,309 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,309
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Colonnade entourant la cour intérieure d’un bâtiment ou disposée autour d’un édifice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peristyle · péristyle · French
péristyle · rank #60,309 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,309
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pénates
Nearest frequency peer: pénates (-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 « péristyle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- puppy
puppy
39,695 corpus weight
- pédiatres
pédiatres
39,694 corpus weight
- pénates
pénates
39,693 corpus weight
- péristyle
péristyle
39,692 corpus weight
- quadrillé
quadrillé
39,690 corpus weight
- quintet
quintet
39,689 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « péristyle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | péristyle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁi.stil\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « péristyle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
péristyle is uncommon French at frequency #60,309 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ʁi.stil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
péristyle has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is péristyle, spelled P-É-R-I-S-T-Y-L-E.
Definition
- 1Colonnade entourant la cour intérieure d’un bâtiment ou disposée autour d’un édifice.
- 2Galerie fermée d’un côté par une colonnade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how péristyle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les troncs de ces arbres, rouges marbrés de vert, montant sans branches jusqu’à leurs cimes, ressemblaient à de hautes colonnes, et formaient le péristyle de ce temple de la mort.
Deux obélisques de fonte sont posés à chaque bout comme au péristyle d’un monument thébain, et cet ornement n’est pas déplacé là, car le gigantesque génie architectural des Pharaons ne désavouerait pas le pont de Cubzac.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).