pectorale
\pɛk.tɔ.ʁal\
The verdict
“pectorale” is uncommon French (frequency #85,114 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,114
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nageoire pectorale (nageoire antérieure, située sur le côté du corps).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pectorale · pectorale · French
pectorale · rank #85,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,114
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peinturer
Nearest frequency peer: peinturer (+3 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 « pectorale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pataud
pataud
14,893 corpus weight
- pavia
pavia
14,891 corpus weight
- pectorale
pectorale
14,887 corpus weight
- peinturer
peinturer
14,884 corpus weight
- pele
pele
14,883 corpus weight
- pelées
pelées
14,882 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pectorale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pectorale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛk.tɔ.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pectorale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pectorale is uncommon French at frequency #85,114 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛk.tɔ.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nageoire pectorale (nageoire antérieure, située sur le côté du corps).".
No misspelling variants are generated for pectorale in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 pectorale, spelled P-E-C-T-O-R-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nageoire pectorale (nageoire antérieure, située sur le côté du corps).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pectorale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pectorales, larges et allongées, présentent trois rayons libres auxquels se rendent des nerfs volumineux; ce sont des organes de tact.
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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