ptolémaïque
\ptɔ.le.ma.ik\
The verdict
“ptolémaïque” is uncommon French (frequency #93,128 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,128
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux pharaons Ptolémées, à leur dynastie, à la période de leur règne (de 332 à 30 avant J.-C.).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ptolemaique · ptolémaïque · French
ptolémaïque · rank #93,128 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,128
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PSR
Nearest frequency peer: PSR (-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 « ptolémaïque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prédéfinies
prédéfinies
6,876 corpus weight
- prématurité
prématurité
6,875 corpus weight
- PSR
PSR
6,874 corpus weight
- ptolémaïque
ptolémaïque
6,873 corpus weight
- puisait
puisait
6,871 corpus weight
- Punjabi
Punjabi
6,870 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ptolémaïque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ptolémaïque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ptɔ.le.ma.ik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #93,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ptolémaïque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ptolémaïque is uncommon French at frequency #93,128 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ptɔ.le.ma.ik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for ptolémaïque in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ptolémaïque, spelled P-T-O-L-É-M-A-Ï-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux pharaons Ptolémées, à leur dynastie, à la période de leur règne (de 332 à 30 avant J.-C.).
- 2Relatif au système cosmologique géocentrique de Ptolémée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ptolémaïque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’autodétermination des nations est une conception ptolémaïque.
Sitôt nos dispositions prises à l’hôtel où nous ne resterions qu’une journée, après un tour au musée (quelques restes ptolémaïques), et puisque la ville, entièrement modernisée, n’avait aucun charme à nous offrir, mon mari trouva le moyen de m’emmener vers de l’inédit.
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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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