silurien
\si.ly.ʁjɛ̃\
The verdict
“silurien” is uncommon French (frequency #79,747 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,747
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au Silurien, système de terrains appartenant à l’époque primaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-silurien · silurien · French
silurien · rank #79,747 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,747
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH silure
Nearest frequency peer: silure (-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 « silurien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sheep
sheep
20,258 corpus weight
- shiba
shiba
20,257 corpus weight
- signifiaient
signifiaient
20,256 corpus weight
- silure
silure
20,255 corpus weight
- silurien
silurien
20,254 corpus weight
- silvano
silvano
20,253 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « silurien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | silurien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si.ly.ʁjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « silurien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
silurien is uncommon French at frequency #79,747 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \si.ly.ʁjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au Silurien, système de terrains appartenant à l’époque primaire.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for silurien, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is silurien, spelled S-I-L-U-R-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif au Silurien, système de terrains appartenant à l’époque primaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how silurien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les terrains siluriens sont riches en fossiles.
Des fougères gigantesques croissaient sur leurs bords, et dans des conditions analogues à celles de la végétation silurienne.
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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