porphyre
\pɔʁ.fiʁ\
The verdict
“porphyre” is uncommon French (frequency #54,172 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,172
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné au granite contenant de grands cristaux d’orthose, formés en profondeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porphyre · porphyre · French
porphyre · rank #54,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,172
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Ponzi
Nearest frequency peer: Ponzi (-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 « porphyre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ponctuent
ponctuent
45,832 corpus weight
- ponctués
ponctués
45,831 corpus weight
- Ponzi
Ponzi
45,830 corpus weight
- porphyre
porphyre
45,829 corpus weight
- positionnées
positionnées
45,828 corpus weight
- pouah
pouah
45,827 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « porphyre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porphyre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.fiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « porphyre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
porphyre is uncommon French at frequency #54,172 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.fiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné au granite contenant de grands cristaux d’orthose, formés en profondeur.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for porphyre, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is porphyre, spelled P-O-R-P-H-Y-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné au granite contenant de grands cristaux d’orthose, formés en profondeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porphyre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était un temple, une tour, une Babel gigantesque bâtie en porphyre pâle, teinté très-délicatement de cette nuance indécise qu’on appelle « vert d’eau. »
Les alluvions anciennes […] sont essentiellement formées d’un sable quartzeux dans la masse duquel on rencontre du gravier et des cailloux roulés de nature variable : porphyre pétrosiliceux, brèche, granite à amphibole des Ballons, porphyrites et quartzites, celles-ci provenant du démantèlement des poudingues de grès.
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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