panégyrique
\pa.ne.ʒi.ʁik\
The verdict
“panégyrique” is uncommon French (frequency #63,979 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,979
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discours public fait à la louange de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose, éloge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-panegyrique · panégyrique · French
panégyrique · rank #63,979 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,979
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Paisley
Nearest frequency peer: Paisley (-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 « panégyrique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- owner
owner
36,025 corpus weight
- pacificateur
pacificateur
36,024 corpus weight
- Paisley
Paisley
36,023 corpus weight
- panégyrique
panégyrique
36,022 corpus weight
- parasitaires
parasitaires
36,021 corpus weight
- pardonnable
pardonnable
36,020 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « panégyrique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | panégyrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ne.ʒi.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #63,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « panégyrique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
panégyrique is uncommon French at frequency #63,979 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ne.ʒi.ʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Discours public fait à la louange de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose, éloge.".
panégyrique doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is panégyrique, spelled P-A-N-É-G-Y-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Discours public fait à la louange de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose, éloge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how panégyrique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ô crime ! ô honte ! La tribune du peuple français a retenti du panégyrique de Louis XVI ; nous avons entendu vanter les vertus et les bienfaits du tyran !
L’un célébrait les louanges d’Athelsthane dans un panégyrique lugubre ; un autre redisait, dans un poème généalogique en langue saxonne, les noms étrangement durs et sauvages de ses nobles ancêtres.
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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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