Parthénon
\paʁ.te.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“Parthénon” is uncommon French (frequency #54,783 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,783
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien temple grec antique, jadis consacré à la déesse Athéna.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parthenon · Parthénon · French
Parthénon · rank #54,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,783
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parrainée
Nearest frequency peer: parrainée (-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 « Parthénon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pants
pants
45,221 corpus weight
- parements
parements
45,220 corpus weight
- parrainée
parrainée
45,219 corpus weight
- Parthénon
Parthénon
45,218 corpus weight
- patou
patou
45,217 corpus weight
- pavement
pavement
45,216 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Parthénon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Parthénon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.te.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Parthénon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Parthénon is uncommon French at frequency #54,783 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \paʁ.te.nɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien temple grec antique, jadis consacré à la déesse Athéna.".
Parthénon has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Parthénon, spelled P-A-R-T-H-É-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ancien temple grec antique, jadis consacré à la déesse Athéna.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Parthénon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Treize ans après que l’ambassadeur Lord Elgin eut obtenu du sultan ottoman le transfert à Londres de la frise du Parthénon, Wellington adoptait les manières de son ancien rival, enfin exilé au bout du monde, en renvoyant le droit des traités antérieurs à des arguties juridiques issues du seul rapport de force.
M. Tatoulis avait reproché il y a un an aux responsables de la restauration de ne pas avoir atteint leur objectif, rappelant la présence d’échafaudages pendant les Jeux olympiques sur le Parthénon, les Propylées et le temple d’Athina Niké, alors entièrement démonté.
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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