iguanes
\i.ɡwan\
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
- identifiait
identifiait
30,090 corpus weight
- ido
ido
30,089 corpus weight
- ids
ids
30,088 corpus weight
- iguanes
iguanes
30,087 corpus weight
- ihre
ihre
30,086 corpus weight
- immigrations
immigrations
30,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « iguanes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | iguanes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ɡwan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « iguanes » en français
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
- 1Pluriel de iguane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how iguanes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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