pétrolifère
\pet.ʁɔ.li.fɛʁ\
The verdict
“pétrolifère” is uncommon French (frequency #82,378 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,378
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Où il se trouve du pétrole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petrolifere · pétrolifère · French
pétrolifère · rank #82,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,378
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH purifiant
Nearest frequency peer: purifiant (-2 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 « pétrolifère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prétexter
prétexter
17,630 corpus weight
- publis
publis
17,628 corpus weight
- Punjab
Punjab
17,627 corpus weight
- purifiant
purifiant
17,625 corpus weight
- pétrolifère
pétrolifère
17,623 corpus weight
- questa
questa
17,619 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pétrolifère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétrolifère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pet.ʁɔ.li.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétrolifère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétrolifère is uncommon French at frequency #82,378 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pet.ʁɔ.li.fɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Où il se trouve du pétrole.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pétrolifère, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 pétrolifère, spelled P-É-T-R-O-L-I-F-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Où il se trouve du pétrole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pétrolifère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Briand m'expliqua comment, […], il s'en fallut de peu que nous ne fussions évincés de toute participation aux gisements pétrolifères de Mésopotamie.
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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