prismatique
\pʁis.ma.tik\
The verdict
“prismatique” is uncommon French (frequency #83,274 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,274
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la forme d’un prisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prismatique · prismatique · French
prismatique · rank #83,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,274
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prion
Nearest frequency peer: prion (-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 « prismatique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- preacher
preacher
16,731 corpus weight
- prescrivant
prescrivant
16,730 corpus weight
- prion
prion
16,728 corpus weight
- prismatique
prismatique
16,727 corpus weight
- procédurales
procédurales
16,726 corpus weight
- protégeront
protégeront
16,723 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prismatique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prismatique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁis.ma.tik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #83,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prismatique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prismatique is uncommon French at frequency #83,274 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁis.ma.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for prismatique in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prismatique, spelled P-R-I-S-M-A-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a la forme d’un prisme.
- 2Décomposé, comme sortant d’un prisme.
- 3Qui contient un prisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prismatique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces nodules sphéroïdes ou cylindroïdes, si singulièrement affublés, en Champagne, comme en Picardie ou en Haute-Normandie, de l’appellation imprévue de pierres de tonnerre ou de pierres de foudre sont formés de cristaux prismatiques de bisulfure de fer irradiant de leur centre.
Le portail s’ouvre sous une grande tour carrée et ses deux baies ogivales sont séparées par un meneau prismatique au bas duquel s’évase une grande coupelle en pierre.
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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