pascaline
\pa.ska.lin\
The verdict
“pascaline” is uncommon French (frequency #66,980 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,980
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Machine à calculer mécanique inventée par Blaise Pascal permettant de faire toutes les opérations d’arithmétique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pascaline · pascaline · French
pascaline · rank #66,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,980
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parviendrons
Nearest frequency peer: parviendrons (-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 « pascaline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parricide
parricide
33,024 corpus weight
- particular
particular
33,023 corpus weight
- parviendrons
parviendrons
33,022 corpus weight
- pascaline
pascaline
33,021 corpus weight
- passos
passos
33,020 corpus weight
- passéiste
passéiste
33,019 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pascaline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pascaline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ska.lin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pascaline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pascaline is uncommon French at frequency #66,980 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ska.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Machine à calculer mécanique inventée par Blaise Pascal permettant de faire toutes les opérations d’arithmétique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pascaline in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pascaline, spelled P-A-S-C-A-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Machine à calculer mécanique inventée par Blaise Pascal permettant de faire toutes les opérations d’arithmétique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pascaline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La pascaline permet d’effectuer non seulement des additions et des soustractions, mais aussi des multiplications et des divisions.
En compagnie de monsieur Chauvin, collectionneur de machines à calculer, Pierre Sabbagh présente le fonctionnement de la pascaline, machine à calculer inventée en 1642 par Blaise Pascal pour soulager le travail de son père, surintendant des Finances en Normandie. La construction de ces machines était artisanale et leur fonctionnement parfois aléatoire.
Synonyms
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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