stalagmites
\sta.laɡ.mit\
The verdict
“stalagmites” is uncommon French (frequency #95,355 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,355
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de stalagmite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stalagmites · stalagmites · French
stalagmites · rank #95,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,355
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH squid
Nearest frequency peer: squid (-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 « stalagmites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spicy
spicy
4,650 corpus weight
- spotless
spotless
4,649 corpus weight
- Sprimont
Sprimont
4,648 corpus weight
- squid
squid
4,647 corpus weight
- stalagmites
stalagmites
4,646 corpus weight
- Stelvio
Stelvio
4,645 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stalagmites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stalagmites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sta.laɡ.mit\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #95,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stalagmites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stalagmites is uncommon French at frequency #95,355 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sta.laɡ.mit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de stalagmite.".
stalagmites has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is stalagmites, spelled S-T-A-L-A-G-M-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de stalagmite.
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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