pantacourt
\pɑ̃.ta.kuʁ\
The verdict
“pantacourt” is uncommon French (frequency #85,102 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,102
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pantalon court qui descend au-dessous du genou sans aller jusqu’aux chevilles, intermédiaire entre un bermuda et un pantalon long.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pantacourt · pantacourt · French
pantacourt · rank #85,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,102
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pani
Nearest frequency peer: pani (-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 « pantacourt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- palliative
palliative
14,902 corpus weight
- panafricani…
panafricanisme
14,901 corpus weight
- pani
pani
14,900 corpus weight
- pantacourt
pantacourt
14,899 corpus weight
- papounet
papounet
14,898 corpus weight
- parachevé
parachevé
14,897 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pantacourt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pantacourt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.ta.kuʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pantacourt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pantacourt is uncommon French at frequency #85,102 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɑ̃.ta.kuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pantalon court qui descend au-dessous du genou sans aller jusqu’aux chevilles, intermédiaire entre un bermuda et un pantalon long.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pantacourt, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pantacourt, spelled P-A-N-T-A-C-O-U-R-T.
Definition
- 1Pantalon court qui descend au-dessous du genou sans aller jusqu’aux chevilles, intermédiaire entre un bermuda et un pantalon long.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pantacourt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En octobre, il tourne son premier et unique scopitone, « Aragon et Castille ». Il joue un glacier, chemise rose, tablier blanc, pantacourt gris et calot blanc, et conduit un triporteur devant deux gros cylindres verticaux qui tournent sur eux-même.
Formés à Édimbourg en 1969, les Bay City Rollers, des minets aux longs cheveux bien peignés, enflamment les écrans télé avec leurs chemises ouvertes jusqu’au nombril et l’adoption précoce du pantacourt.
Synonyms
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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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