pétrologie
\pe.tʁɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“pétrologie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science qui s’intéresse aux mécanismes (physiques, chimiques et biologiques) qui sont à l’origine de la formation et de la transformation des roches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petrologie · pétrologie · French
pétrologie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétrologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.tʁɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétrologie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétrologie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.tʁɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Science qui s’intéresse aux mécanismes (physiques, chimiques et biologiques) qui sont à l’origine de la formation et de la transformation des roches.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pétrologie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pétrologie, spelled P-É-T-R-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Science qui s’intéresse aux mécanismes (physiques, chimiques et biologiques) qui sont à l’origine de la formation et de la transformation des roches.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pétrologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’objet de la pétrographie est actuellement plus que la description des roches : sous le nom de « pétrologie », elle se propose d’expliquer leur genèse et leur devenir.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.