canal pancréatique
\ka.nal pɑ̃.kʁe.a.tik\
The verdict
“canal pancréatique” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Conduit principal du pancréas, qui recueille les sécrétions exocrines pancréatiques (riches en enzymes digestives) et les déverse dans le duodénum, en général par l’ampoule de Vater, souvent conjoi...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canal pancréatique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nal pɑ̃.kʁe.a.tik\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “canal pancréatique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for canal pancréatique is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.nal pɑ̃.kʁe.a.tik\. 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: "Conduit principal du pancréas, qui recueille les sécrétions exocrines pancréatiques (riches en enzymes digestives) et les déverse dans le duodénum, en général par l’ampoule de Vater, souvent conjoi...".
No misspelling variants are generated for canal pancréatique 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 canal pancréatique, spelled C-A-N-A-L- -P-A-N-C-R-É-A-T-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conduit principal du pancréas, qui recueille les sécrétions exocrines pancréatiques (riches en enzymes digestives) et les déverse dans le duodénum, en général par l’ampoule de Vater, souvent conjointement avec le canal cholédoque.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-A-L- -P-A-N-C-R-É-A-T-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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