iguanes

\i.ɡwan\

/\i.ɡwan\/ noun

The verdict

“iguanes” is uncommon French (frequency #69,914 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,914
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de iguane.

Corpus desk

Index FR-iguanes · iguanes · French

iguanes · rank #69,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,914
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH ids

Nearest frequency peer: ids (-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 « iguanes »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « iguanes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for iguanes
PropertyValue
Headwordiguanes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\i.ɡwan\
Letters7
Frequency rank#69,914
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « iguanes » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).iguanestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « ids » (#69,913), « ihre » (#69,915), « ido » (#69,912). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « iguanes » est au #69,914. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

iguanes is uncommon French at frequency #69,914 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.ɡwan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de iguane.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for iguanes in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is iguanes, spelled I-G-U-A-N-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de iguane.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how iguanes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il s’agit de deux espèces d’iguanes se ressemblant beaucoup, dont l’une est aquatique et l’autre terrestre.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "iguanes"?
"iguanes" is spelled I-G-U-A-N-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \i.ɡwan\.
What does "iguanes" mean?
As a noun, "iguanes" means: Pluriel de iguane.
How do you pronounce "iguanes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "iguanes" is \i.ɡwan\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "iguanes" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "iguanes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list