pléistocène
\ple.is.tɔ.sɛn\
The verdict
“pléistocène” is uncommon French (frequency #62,529 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,529
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient au début de l’ère quaternaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pleistocene · pléistocène · French
pléistocène · rank #62,529 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,529
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plaindra
Nearest frequency peer: plaindra (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pléistocène”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pivoine
pivoine
37,475 corpus weight
- pivotant
pivotant
37,474 corpus weight
- plaindra
plaindra
37,473 corpus weight
- pléistocène
pléistocène
37,472 corpus weight
- pogne
pogne
37,470 corpus weight
- pointillé
pointillé
37,469 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pléistocène” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pléistocène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ple.is.tɔ.sɛn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “pléistocène” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
pléistocène is uncommon French at frequency #62,529 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ple.is.tɔ.sɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui appartient au début de l’ère quaternaire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pléistocène in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pléistocène, spelled P-L-É-I-S-T-O-C-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient au début de l’ère quaternaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pléistocène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’époque pléistocène.
Un terrain pléistocène.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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