pancréas

/\pɑ̃.kʁe.as\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#22,364

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pancréas is aFrenchnoun. It means: Glande abdominale mixte, à la fois exocrine (produisant un suc digestif riche en enzymes pour la digestion des lipides, glucides et protéines) et endocrine (sécrétant des hormones comme l’insuline)... Pronounced \pɑ̃.kʁe.as\.

Key facts for pancréas
PropertyValue
Headwordpancréas
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɑ̃.kʁe.as\
Letters8
Frequency rank#22,364
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pancréas in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pancréas is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑ̃.kʁe.as\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,364 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Glande abdominale mixte, à la fois exocrine (produisant un suc digestif riche en enzymes pour la digestion des lipides, glucides et protéines) et endocrine (sécrétant des hormones comme l’insuline)...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for pancréas, with forms such as "apncréas", "pacnréas", and "panccréas". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pancréas, spelled P-A-N-C-R-É-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Glande abdominale mixte, à la fois exocrine (produisant un suc digestif riche en enzymes pour la digestion des lipides, glucides et protéines) et endocrine (sécrétant des hormones comme l’insuline), dont le suc s’écoule dans le duodénum.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: apncréas,pacnréas,panccréas,pancraés,pancreas,pancrréas,pancréass,pancrésa,pancéras,panncréas,panrcéas,pnacréas,ppancréas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pancréas

Misspelling Variants of "pancréas"

apncréas8pacnréas8panccréas9pancraés8pancreas8pancrréas9pancréass9pancrésa8
Misspelling Variants of "pancréas"

Frequency rank: #22,364 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pancréas"?
"pancréas" is spelled P-A-N-C-R-É-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pɑ̃.kʁe.as\.
What does "pancréas" mean?
As a noun, "pancréas" means: Glande abdominale mixte, à la fois exocrine (produisant un suc digestif riche en enzymes pour la digestion des lipides, glucides et protéines) et endocrine (sécrétant des hormones comme l’insuline)...
What are common misspellings of "pancréas"?
Common misspellings include "apncréas", "pacnréas", "panccréas", "pancraés", "pancreas". The correct spelling is "pancréas".
How do you pronounce "pancréas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pancréas" is \pɑ̃.kʁe.as\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pancréas" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.