premier âge
\pʁə.mjɛ.ʁ‿ɑʒ\
The verdict
“premier âge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Période allant de la naissance d’un enfant à ses six premiers mois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-premier-age · premier âge · French
premier âge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | premier âge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁə.mjɛ.ʁ‿ɑʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
premier âge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁə.mjɛ.ʁ‿ɑʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for premier âge, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 premier âge, spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -Â-G-E.
Definition
- 1Période allant de la naissance d’un enfant à ses six premiers mois.
- 2Premiers temps de l’existence d’une civilisation, d’une société.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how premier âge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puisqu’on ne saura jamais tout, à quoi bon savoir davantage ? Du moment que la vérité conquise ne donne pas le bonheur immédiat et certain, pourquoi ne pas se contenter de l’ignorance, cette couche obscure où l’humanité a dormi pesamment son premier âge ?…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.