peacock
\ˈpiː.kɒk\
The verdict
“peacock” is uncommon French (frequency #66,209 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,209
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peacock · peacock · French
peacock · rank #66,209 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,209
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PDM
Nearest frequency peer: PDM (-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 « peacock »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Patrik
Patrik
33,795 corpus weight
- Pauly
Pauly
33,794 corpus weight
- PDM
PDM
33,793 corpus weight
- peacock
peacock
33,792 corpus weight
- Pecq
Pecq
33,791 corpus weight
- pedrosa
pedrosa
33,790 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « peacock » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peacock |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpiː.kɒk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peacock » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peacock is uncommon French at frequency #66,209 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpiː.kɒk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for peacock, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is peacock, spelled P-E-A-C-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1Paon.
- 2Paon mâle.
- 3Paon (figure).
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).