stratigraphie
\stʁa.ti.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“stratigraphie” is uncommon French (frequency #60,396 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,396
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Étude de la succession des dépôts sédimentaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stratigraphie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁa.ti.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #60,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stratigraphie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
stratigraphie is uncommon French at frequency #60,396 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stʁa.ti.ɡʁa.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
stratigraphie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is stratigraphie, spelled S-T-R-A-T-I-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Étude de la succession des dépôts sédimentaires.
- 2Étude des couches de terrain et de leur contenu afin d'établir des séquences chronologiques.
- 3Autre nom pour la tomographie.
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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Using “stratigraphie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-T-R-A-T-I-G-R-A-P-H-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.