pangolin indien
\pɑ̃.ɡɔ.lɛ̃ ɛ̃.djɛ̃\
The verdict
“pangolin indien” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Espèce de pangolins des plaines et des collines de l'Inde, du Sri Lanka, du Népal et du Bhoutan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pangolin indien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.ɡɔ.lɛ̃ ɛ̃.djɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pangolin indien” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pangolin indien is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑ̃.ɡɔ.lɛ̃ ɛ̃.djɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce de pangolins des plaines et des collines de l'Inde, du Sri Lanka, du Népal et du Bhoutan.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pangolin indien in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 pangolin indien, spelled P-A-N-G-O-L-I-N- -I-N-D-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de pangolins des plaines et des collines de l'Inde, du Sri Lanka, du Népal et du Bhoutan.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-N-G-O-L-I-N- -I-N-D-I-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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