pliocène
\pli.jɔ.sɛn\
The verdict
“pliocène” is uncommon French (frequency #54,161 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,161
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à la partie la plus récente de l’ère tertiaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pliocene · pliocène · French
pliocène · rank #54,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,161
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planifiés
Nearest frequency peer: planifiés (-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 « pliocène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pipo
pipo
45,843 corpus weight
- Plagne
Plagne
45,842 corpus weight
- planifiés
planifiés
45,841 corpus weight
- pliocène
pliocène
45,840 corpus weight
- pluridiscip…
pluridisciplinaires
45,839 corpus weight
- pléthorique
pléthorique
45,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pliocène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pliocène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pli.jɔ.sɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pliocène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pliocène is uncommon French at frequency #54,161 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pli.jɔ.sɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui appartient à la partie la plus récente de l’ère tertiaire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pliocène in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 pliocène, spelled P-L-I-O-C-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à la partie la plus récente de l’ère tertiaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pliocène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un terrain pliocène.
L’époque pliocène.
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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