palanquin
\pa.lɑ̃.kɛ̃\
The verdict
“palanquin” is uncommon French (frequency #84,136 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,136
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de chaise à porteurs, de litière, portée par des hommes ou par des animaux et dont les personnes importantes se servent, dans l’Inde et en Chine, pour se faire transporter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palanquin · palanquin · French
palanquin · rank #84,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,136
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH overkill
Nearest frequency peer: overkill (-2 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 « palanquin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- overkill
overkill
15,867 corpus weight
- palanquin
palanquin
15,865 corpus weight
- panam
panam
15,863 corpus weight
- papesse
papesse
15,861 corpus weight
- papillotes
papillotes
15,860 corpus weight
- parcourons
parcourons
15,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palanquin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palanquin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.lɑ̃.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palanquin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palanquin is uncommon French at frequency #84,136 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.lɑ̃.kɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de chaise à porteurs, de litière, portée par des hommes ou par des animaux et dont les personnes importantes se servent, dans l’Inde et en Chine, pour se faire transporter.".
palanquin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is palanquin, spelled P-A-L-A-N-Q-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Sorte de chaise à porteurs, de litière, portée par des hommes ou par des animaux et dont les personnes importantes se servent, dans l’Inde et en Chine, pour se faire transporter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palanquin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se faire porter dans un palanquin.
Un riche palanquin.
This word in other languages
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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