pectoral
\pɛk.tɔ.ʁal\
The verdict
“pectoral” is uncommon French (frequency #70,093 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,093
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la poitrine, aux poumons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pectoral · pectoral · French
pectoral · rank #70,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,093
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PCA
Nearest frequency peer: PCA (-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 « pectoral »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- payerez
payerez
29,911 corpus weight
- Payerne
Payerne
29,910 corpus weight
- PCA
PCA
29,909 corpus weight
- pectoral
pectoral
29,908 corpus weight
- peinait
peinait
29,907 corpus weight
- perchiste
perchiste
29,905 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pectoral » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pectoral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛk.tɔ.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pectoral » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pectoral is uncommon French at frequency #70,093 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛk.tɔ.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la poitrine, aux poumons.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pectoral in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pectoral, spelled P-E-C-T-O-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la poitrine, aux poumons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pectoral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les mousses, en raison de leur gymnastique particulière, ont aussi les bras et les muscles pectoraux très-gros.
Plus courantes sans doute furent les protections pectorales en cuir, car plus légères et pratiques : le développement de la cavalerie légère imposa un allégement de l’équipement.
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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