cachalots pygmées
The verdict
“cachalots pygmées” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pluriel de cachalot pygmée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cachalots pygmées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʃa.lo piɡ.me\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cachalots pygmées” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cachalots pygmées is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.ʃa.lo piɡ.me\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de cachalot pygmée.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cachalots pygmées in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cachalots pygmées, spelled C-A-C-H-A-L-O-T-S- -P-Y-G-M-É-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cachalot pygmée.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "cachalots pygmées"?
What does "cachalots pygmées" mean?
How do you pronounce "cachalots pygmées"?
What language does "cachalots pygmées" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Using “cachalots pygmées”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-A-C-H-A-L-O-T-S- -P-Y-G-M-É-E-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ka.ʃa.lo piɡ.me\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index: