stratosphère
\stʁa.tɔs.fɛʁ\
The verdict
“stratosphère” is uncommon French (frequency #54,927 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,927
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie supérieure de l’atmosphère, où les gaz sont en repos presque complet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stratosphere · stratosphère · French
stratosphère · rank #54,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,927
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stoppeur
Nearest frequency peer: stoppeur (-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 « stratosphère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- SRU
SRU
45,078 corpus weight
- stiller
stiller
45,076 corpus weight
- stoppeur
stoppeur
45,075 corpus weight
- stratosphère
stratosphère
45,074 corpus weight
- stérilisé
stérilisé
45,072 corpus weight
- suggérés
suggérés
45,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stratosphère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stratosphère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁa.tɔs.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #54,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stratosphère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stratosphère is uncommon French at frequency #54,927 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stʁa.tɔs.fɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for stratosphère in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is stratosphère, spelled S-T-R-A-T-O-S-P-H-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Partie supérieure de l’atmosphère, où les gaz sont en repos presque complet.
- 2Point culminant d'une chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stratosphère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au-dessus de la tropopause se trouve la stratosphère ; elle s’étend jusqu’à 40 à 60 km d’altitude et joue un rôle protecteur pour les êtres vivants puisque l’ozone qu’elle contient en grande quantité (90 % du total de la colonne atmosphérique avec un maximum vers 25 km) absorbe le rayonnement solaire ultraviolet de longueur d’onde inférieure à environ 300…
La stratosphère est la deuxième couche constituant l'atmosphère, au-dessus de la troposphère (dans laquelle nous vivons).
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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