pantaléon
\pɑ̃.ta.le.ɔ̃\
The verdict
“pantaléon” is uncommon French (frequency #88,977 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,977
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cithare à cordes frappées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pantaleon · pantaléon · French
pantaléon · rank #88,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,977
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pamir
Nearest frequency peer: Pamir (-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 « pantaléon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- padovani
padovani
11,028 corpus weight
- paissent
paissent
11,026 corpus weight
- Pamir
Pamir
11,025 corpus weight
- pantaléon
pantaléon
11,024 corpus weight
- papales
papales
11,023 corpus weight
- parallélépi…
parallélépipède
11,021 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pantaléon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pantaléon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.ta.le.ɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pantaléon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pantaléon is uncommon French at frequency #88,977 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɑ̃.ta.le.ɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cithare à cordes frappées.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pantaléon, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pantaléon, spelled P-A-N-T-A-L-É-O-N.
Definition
- 1Cithare à cordes frappées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pantaléon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’instrument s’appelle un pantaléon ; et le musicien Osbrück.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).