pécan
\pe.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“pécan” is uncommon French (frequency #76,929 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,929
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mustélidé du genre Martes, plus gros que la martre, vivant au Canada, parfois chassé pour sa fourrure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pecan · pécan · French
pécan · rank #76,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,929
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PZ
Nearest frequency peer: PZ (-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 « pécan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pug
pug
23,075 corpus weight
- puisées
puisées
23,074 corpus weight
- PZ
PZ
23,073 corpus weight
- pécan
pécan
23,072 corpus weight
- pédopornogr…
pédopornographie
23,071 corpus weight
- pélagiques
pélagiques
23,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pécan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pécan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pécan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pécan is uncommon French at frequency #76,929 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mustélidé du genre Martes, plus gros que la martre, vivant au Canada, parfois chassé pour sa fourrure.".
pécan has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pécan, spelled P-É-C-A-N.
Definition
- 1Mustélidé du genre Martes, plus gros que la martre, vivant au Canada, parfois chassé pour sa fourrure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pécan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon le Grand dictionnaire terminologique du Québec, diverses graphies existent : pékan (plus actuel) ou pécan (plus ancien).
Synonyms
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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