phonologie
\fɔ.nɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“phonologie” is uncommon French (frequency #58,830 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,830
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étude des fonctions des sons d’une langue comme les phonèmes, les syllabes et les intonations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phonologie · phonologie · French
phonologie · rank #58,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,830
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH personnifié
Nearest frequency peer: personnifié (-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 « phonologie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peas
peas
41,174 corpus weight
- percutée
percutée
41,173 corpus weight
- personnifié
personnifié
41,172 corpus weight
- phonologie
phonologie
41,171 corpus weight
- pinçon
pinçon
41,169 corpus weight
- pioches
pioches
41,168 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « phonologie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phonologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.nɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #58,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phonologie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phonologie is uncommon French at frequency #58,830 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɔ.nɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Étude des fonctions des sons d’une langue comme les phonèmes, les syllabes et les intonations.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for phonologie, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is phonologie, spelled P-H-O-N-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Étude des fonctions des sons d’une langue comme les phonèmes, les syllabes et les intonations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how phonologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une étude réalisée par le ministère de l’éducation, en 1997 et 2011, auprés de 15,000 enfants montre qu’à quatorze ans d’intervalle, les acquis des élèves entrant en CP ont nettement progressé en phonologie, numération […]
La phonologie permet d’associer à un graphème, c’est-à-dire à un groupe de lettres particulier (exemple : le groupe de lettres « ch ») un phonème spécifique (exemple : le son « ch » transcrit [S] ^([sic : ʃ, en fait]) en écriture phonétique). — (Lionel Naccache, Le Nouvel Inconscient : Freud, le Christophe Colomb des neurosciences, Odile Jacob, 2009, page…
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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