stratigraphie
\stʁa.ti.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“stratigraphie” is uncommon French (frequency #60,396 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,396
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étude de la succession des dépôts sédimentaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stratigraphie · stratigraphie · French
stratigraphie · rank #60,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,396
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH strasbourgeoi…
Nearest frequency peer: strasbourgeoise (-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 « stratigraphie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- stationnent
stationnent
39,608 corpus weight
- strasbourge…
strasbourgeoise
39,606 corpus weight
- stratigraph…
stratigraphie
39,605 corpus weight
- strident
strident
39,604 corpus weight
- strips
strips
39,603 corpus weight
- stroke
stroke
39,602 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stratigraphie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « stratigraphie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stratigraphie is uncommon French at frequency #60,396 among 6,032 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stratigraphie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On s’efforce, au cours des fouilles, de dégager chaque niveau, dans l’ordre inverse de sa formation, en suivant la stratigraphie naturelle, ce qui correspond rarement à l’établissement de tranches régulièrement horizontales.
Cette œuvre réunit à elle seule le champ des possibles de la photographie, ainsi que les sujets essentiels à l’archéologie : chronologie, superposition des faits humains et stratigraphie des sols, occupation de l’espace et traces laissées dans le paysage.
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).