Pristina
\pʁiʃ.ti.na\
The verdict
“Pristina” is uncommon French (frequency #70,968 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,968
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Principale ville du Kosovo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pristina · Pristina · French
Pristina · rank #70,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,968
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Prisca
Nearest frequency peer: Prisca (-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 « Pristina »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Presles
Presles
29,036 corpus weight
- primavera
primavera
29,035 corpus weight
- Prisca
Prisca
29,034 corpus weight
- Pristina
Pristina
29,033 corpus weight
- prospecteurs
prospecteurs
29,031 corpus weight
- Protée
Protée
29,030 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pristina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pristina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pʁiʃ.ti.na\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pristina » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pristina is uncommon French at frequency #70,968 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pʁiʃ.ti.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Principale ville du Kosovo.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Pristina in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Pristina, spelled P-R-I-S-T-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Principale ville du Kosovo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pristina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les phars chrétiens de ces tribus sont schismatiques grecs, et les phars musulmans sont du rite chiite, ou de la secte d’Ali et des Persans, par conséquent très opposés aux Turcs, qui sont sunnites et ont en horreur tous les partisans d’Ali. Les chrétiens occupent Mousaché, Tomoritsa, Argenik et d’autres places insignifiantes ; les villes principales appa…
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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