pétrifiés
\pe.tʁi.fje\
The verdict
“pétrifiés” is uncommon French (frequency #72,654 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,654
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de pétrifié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petrifies · pétrifiés · French
pétrifiés · rank #72,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,654
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH qualifierais
Nearest frequency peer: qualifierais (+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 « pétrifiés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pte
Pte
27,351 corpus weight
- publierai
publierai
27,350 corpus weight
- punira
punira
27,349 corpus weight
- pétrifiés
pétrifiés
27,347 corpus weight
- qualifierais
qualifierais
27,346 corpus weight
- Radegonde
Radegonde
27,343 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pétrifiés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétrifiés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pe.tʁi.fje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétrifiés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétrifiés is uncommon French at frequency #72,654 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pe.tʁi.fje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de pétrifié.".
pétrifiés doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pétrifiés, spelled P-É-T-R-I-F-I-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de pétrifié.
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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