planisphère
\pla.nis.fɛʁ\
The verdict
“planisphère” is uncommon French (frequency #76,014 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,014
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représentation cartographique plane de la surface du globe terrestre ou des constellations sans séparation en hémisphères.
Corpus desk
Index FR-planisphere · planisphère · French
planisphère · rank #76,014 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,014
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH placette
Nearest frequency peer: placette (-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 « planisphère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piègent
piègent
23,990 corpus weight
- placette
placette
23,988 corpus weight
- planisphère
planisphère
23,987 corpus weight
- planquent
planquent
23,986 corpus weight
- planquée
planquée
23,985 corpus weight
- plantons
plantons
23,984 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « planisphère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | planisphère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pla.nis.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « planisphère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
planisphère is uncommon French at frequency #76,014 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pla.nis.fɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Représentation cartographique plane de la surface du globe terrestre ou des constellations sans séparation en hémisphères.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for planisphère, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 planisphère, spelled P-L-A-N-I-S-P-H-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Représentation cartographique plane de la surface du globe terrestre ou des constellations sans séparation en hémisphères.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how planisphère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, au point indiqué sur le planisphère, se déroulait l’un de ces courants
Après avoir situé le monde russe sur le planisphère, entrons-y pour en déterminer les caractères physiques.
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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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