panicules
\pa.ni.kyl\
The verdict
“panicules” is uncommon French (frequency #91,010 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,010
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de panicule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-panicules · panicules · French
panicules · rank #91,010 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,010
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paninis
Nearest frequency peer: paninis (+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 « panicules »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paillote
paillote
8,994 corpus weight
- Paloise
Paloise
8,993 corpus weight
- panicules
panicules
8,991 corpus weight
- paninis
paninis
8,990 corpus weight
- paphos
paphos
8,989 corpus weight
- papis
papis
8,988 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « panicules » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | panicules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ni.kyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « panicules » en français
Rare enough to double-check
panicules is uncommon French at frequency #91,010 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ni.kyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de panicule.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for panicules in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 panicules, spelled P-A-N-I-C-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de panicule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how panicules appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au-delà de cette densité, le rendement n’augmente pas, car il y a compétition entre les panicules et diminution du nombre de grains par panicule.
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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