permafrost
\pɛʁ.ma.fʁɔst\
The verdict
“permafrost” is uncommon French (frequency #67,769 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,769
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couche de sol gelé en permanence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-permafrost · permafrost · French
permafrost · rank #67,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,769
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pellet
Nearest frequency peer: pellet (-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 « permafrost »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- patronymique
patronymique
32,235 corpus weight
- payerai
payerai
32,234 corpus weight
- pellet
pellet
32,233 corpus weight
- permafrost
permafrost
32,232 corpus weight
- PFC
PFC
32,231 corpus weight
- phébus
phébus
32,229 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « permafrost » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | permafrost |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.ma.fʁɔst\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « permafrost » en français
Rare enough to double-check
permafrost is uncommon French at frequency #67,769 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ.ma.fʁɔst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Couche de sol gelé en permanence.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for permafrost, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is permafrost, spelled P-E-R-M-A-F-R-O-S-T.
Definition
- 1Couche de sol gelé en permanence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how permafrost appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le permafrost représente environ 20 % de la surface de terre du monde, 25 millions de km², dont un quart des terres émergées de l’hémisphère Nord.
Les petites fentes de gel et les nombreuses déformations dues à la géliturbation indiquent un climat très froid ; l’humidité (taches d’hydromorphie) était sans doute favorisée par la présence d’un permafrost discontinu.
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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