Pedersen
The verdict
“Pedersen” is uncommon French (frequency #79,599 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,599
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pedersen · Pedersen · French
Pedersen · rank #79,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,599
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patronages
Nearest frequency peer: patronages (-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 « Pedersen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- patches
patches
20,406 corpus weight
- patri
patri
20,405 corpus weight
- patristique
patristique
20,404 corpus weight
- patronages
patronages
20,403 corpus weight
- Pedersen
Pedersen
20,402 corpus weight
- perfectionn…
perfectionnements
20,399 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pedersen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pedersen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pedersen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pedersen is uncommon French at frequency #79,599 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Pedersen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Pedersen, spelled P-E-D-E-R-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pedersen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le champion de Belgique a remporté une étape nerveuse dans le final, en devançant au sprint l’Irlandais Sam Bennett et le Danois Mads Pedersen.
Cette découverte ouvre un chapitre pour la paléogénétique, a révélé, mercredi, une étude publiée dans Nature. Pour l’un des auteurs du texte, M. Winther Pedersen, avec cette trouvaille, « nous rompons la barrière de ce que nous pensions pouvoir atteindre en matière d’études génétiques ».
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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