phocéenne
\fɔ.se.ɛn\
The verdict
“phocéenne” is uncommon French (frequency #55,503 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,503
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de phocéen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phoceenne · phocéenne · French
phocéenne · rank #55,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,503
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Philippeville
Nearest frequency peer: Philippeville (-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 « phocéenne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pesetas
pesetas
44,501 corpus weight
- Pesquet
Pesquet
44,500 corpus weight
- Philippevil…
Philippeville
44,499 corpus weight
- phocéenne
phocéenne
44,498 corpus weight
- photocopieu…
photocopieuse
44,497 corpus weight
- pigeonnier
pigeonnier
44,496 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « phocéenne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phocéenne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.se.ɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phocéenne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phocéenne is uncommon French at frequency #55,503 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \fɔ.se.ɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de phocéen.".
phocéenne has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is phocéenne, spelled P-H-O-C-É-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de phocéen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how phocéenne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après cinq ans, elle rentre en Île-de-France enceinte de Julien Derouault, danseur rencontré dans la ville phocéenne.
Les colons grecs renouvellent toutefois, en partie mais durablement, ce substrat humain ancien. En effet, leur patrimoine génétique est encore présent chez 4 % de la population marseillaise d’aujourd’hui, identifiable par la présence, sur le chromosome Y, du « signal phocéen », appelé « marqueur E-V13 », une mutation apparue en Grèce et dans ses colonies…
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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