panenka
\pa.nɛn.ka\
The verdict
“panenka” is uncommon French (frequency #99,460 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,460
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tir de penalty en réalisant une pichenette d’un coup de pied en rupture arrivant au centre du but afin de tromper le gardien (si celui-ci a choisi de plonger en prévision d'une frappe puissante).
Corpus desk
Index FR-panenka · panenka · French
panenka · rank #99,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,460
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panaméenne
Nearest frequency peer: panaméenne (-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 « panenka »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- palatins
palatins
544 corpus weight
- palpitants
palpitants
543 corpus weight
- panaméenne
panaméenne
542 corpus weight
- panenka
panenka
541 corpus weight
- panélistes
panélistes
540 corpus weight
- parentérale
parentérale
539 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « panenka » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | panenka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.nɛn.ka\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « panenka » en français
Rare enough to double-check
panenka is uncommon French at frequency #99,460 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.nɛn.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tir de penalty en réalisant une pichenette d’un coup de pied en rupture arrivant au centre du but afin de tromper le gardien (si celui-ci a choisi de plonger en prévision d'une frappe puissante).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for panenka, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is panenka, spelled P-A-N-E-N-K-A.
Definition
- 1Tir de penalty en réalisant une pichenette d’un coup de pied en rupture arrivant au centre du but afin de tromper le gardien (si celui-ci a choisi de plonger en prévision d'une frappe puissante).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how panenka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Olympiens ont ouvert le score sur une merveille de coup franc direct d’Alexis Sanchez, avant que Leonardo Balerdi concède un penalty que Ben Yedder a converti d’une délicieuse panenka.
Achraf Hakimi, lui, a achevé Unai Simon d’une panenka déjà culte.
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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