mouton de Panurge
\mu.tɔ̃ də pa.nyʁʒ\
The verdict
“mouton de Panurge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne suivant un mouvement ou une majorité sans réfléchir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mouton-de-panurge · mouton de Panurge · French
mouton de Panurge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mouton de Panurge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mu.tɔ̃ də pa.nyʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mouton de Panurge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mu.tɔ̃ də pa.nyʁʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne suivant un mouvement ou une majorité sans réfléchir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mouton de Panurge, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 mouton de Panurge, spelled M-O-U-T-O-N- -D-E- -P-A-N-U-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Personne suivant un mouvement ou une majorité sans réfléchir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mouton de Panurge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’on n’objecte pas que c’en serait fait de la jeunesse, privée de ces Mentors, ou tout au moins les possédant moins près d’elle ; la jeunesse, sauf les bons moutons de Panurge dont on fait le calque d’un programme et que l’on dresse à remplir des fonctions qu’ils remplissent mal, perd un temps précieux à se défarcir la tête des opinions erronées, définit…
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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.