psalmodie
\psal.mɔ.di\
The verdict
“psalmodie” is uncommon French (frequency #87,988 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,988
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière de chanter ou de réciter, à l’église, les psaumes et le reste de l’office, toujours sur la même note.
Corpus desk
Index FR-psalmodie · psalmodie · French
psalmodie · rank #87,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,988
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH psalmiste
Nearest frequency peer: psalmiste (-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 « psalmodie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- présenterais
présenterais
12,015 corpus weight
- psalmiste
psalmiste
12,014 corpus weight
- psalmodie
psalmodie
12,013 corpus weight
- pubescent
pubescent
12,012 corpus weight
- punchy
punchy
12,011 corpus weight
- pèlerine
pèlerine
12,010 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « psalmodie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psalmodie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \psal.mɔ.di\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « psalmodie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
psalmodie is uncommon French at frequency #87,988 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \psal.mɔ.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for psalmodie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is psalmodie, spelled P-S-A-L-M-O-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Manière de chanter ou de réciter, à l’église, les psaumes et le reste de l’office, toujours sur la même note.
- 2Manière monotone de déclamer, de débiter des vers ou de la prose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how psalmodie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les moines du couvent de Hango entouraient le corps en chantant des psalmodies du rite grec, quelquefois harmonieuses, plus souvent monotones.
Cette psalmodie parvint aux oreilles d’un petit campement de métis convertis, qui abattaient du bois. […] ils sortirent tout joyeux, s’attendant à un second Avent.
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).