Praxitèle
\pʁa.ksi.tɛl\
The verdict
“Praxitèle” is uncommon French (frequency #99,500 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,500
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sculpteur grec de l’Antiquité, supposé né vers 400 av. J.-C. et mort avant 326 av. J.-C.
Corpus desk
Index FR-praxitele · Praxitèle · French
Praxitèle · rank #99,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,500
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PPF
Nearest frequency peer: PPF (-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 « Praxitèle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- potelée
potelée
505 corpus weight
- pourriel
pourriel
504 corpus weight
- PPF
PPF
502 corpus weight
- Praxitèle
Praxitèle
501 corpus weight
- prendrions
prendrions
499 corpus weight
- prescrivait
prescrivait
498 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Praxitèle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Praxitèle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pʁa.ksi.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Praxitèle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Praxitèle is uncommon French at frequency #99,500 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pʁa.ksi.tɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sculpteur grec de l’Antiquité, supposé né vers 400 av. J.-C. et mort avant 326 av. J.-C.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Praxitèle in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Praxitèle, spelled P-R-A-X-I-T-È-L-E.
Definition
- 1Sculpteur grec de l’Antiquité, supposé né vers 400 av. J.-C. et mort avant 326 av. J.-C.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Praxitèle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« À droite, c’est l’Apollon de Phidias. À gauche, l’Hermès de Praxitèle. Il est splendide, l’Hermès. Regarde ses boucles, et son cou, la ligne de son cou. Il a un cou comme le tien, un peu… Et ses épaules… »
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).