pachydermes
\pa.ʃi.dɛʁm\
The verdict
“pachydermes” is uncommon French (frequency #85,095 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,095
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pachyderme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pachydermes · pachydermes · French
pachydermes · rank #85,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,095
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pabst
Nearest frequency peer: Pabst (-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 « pachydermes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oval
oval
14,909 corpus weight
- ovalie
ovalie
14,908 corpus weight
- Pabst
Pabst
14,907 corpus weight
- pachydermes
pachydermes
14,906 corpus weight
- pali
pali
14,905 corpus weight
- palimpseste
palimpseste
14,904 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pachydermes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pachydermes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʃi.dɛʁm\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pachydermes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pachydermes is uncommon French at frequency #85,095 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʃi.dɛʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pachyderme.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pachydermes, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pachydermes, spelled P-A-C-H-Y-D-E-R-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pachyderme.
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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