péan
\pe.ɑ̃\
The verdict
“péan” is uncommon French (frequency #54,190 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,190
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chant, hymne d’allégresse en l’honneur d’Apollon ou d’autres divinités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pean · péan · French
péan · rank #54,190 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,190
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pèsera
Nearest frequency peer: pèsera (-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 « péan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- punissant
punissant
45,813 corpus weight
- pèsera
pèsera
45,812 corpus weight
- péan
péan
45,811 corpus weight
- qqc
qqc
45,810 corpus weight
- quay
quay
45,809 corpus weight
- Quevilly
Quevilly
45,808 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « péan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | péan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « péan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
péan is uncommon French at frequency #54,190 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for péan in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists 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 péan, spelled P-É-A-N.
Definition
- 1Chant, hymne d’allégresse en l’honneur d’Apollon ou d’autres divinités.
- 2Chant louangeur ou porteur d’espoirs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how péan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après quoi venaient sans doute, gravé toujours sur la même face de la pierre, le premier péan à Asklepios (l. 38-40), puis sur l'autre côté de la stèle, un péan à Apollon de quatre strophes (l. 41-55), un autre à Asklepios (l. 56-73) assez célèbre, […].
Voir un pays se disant foncièrement pacifique contraindre d’innocents bambins à chanter un péan et un appel au meurtre, cela passe l’imagination.
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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