phylogénie
\fi.lɔ.ʒe.ni\
The verdict
“phylogénie” 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) - Étude de l’évolution des êtres vivants afin de déterminer leurs liens de parenté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phylogenie · phylogénie · French
phylogénie · 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 | phylogénie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.lɔ.ʒe.ni\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phylogénie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phylogénie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fi.lɔ.ʒe.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Étude de l’évolution des êtres vivants afin de déterminer leurs liens de parenté.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for phylogénie, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is phylogénie, spelled P-H-Y-L-O-G-É-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Étude de l’évolution des êtres vivants afin de déterminer leurs liens de parenté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how phylogénie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La reconstitution des habitats ancestraux à partir d’une phylogénie moléculaire (Alexandrou et al., 2013) indique également une origine dulçaquicole pour l’ancêtre commun des ésociformes et des salmoniformes.
Synonyms
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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.