pédoncule
\pe.dɔ̃.kyl\
The verdict
“pédoncule” is uncommon French (frequency #58,192 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,192
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tige (ou queue) d’une fleur (et donc, après fécondation, d’un fruit), distincte de la tige de la plante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pedoncule · pédoncule · French
pédoncule · rank #58,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,192
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puys
Nearest frequency peer: puys (-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 « pédoncule »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pupitres
pupitres
41,812 corpus weight
- puritaine
puritaine
41,811 corpus weight
- puys
puys
41,810 corpus weight
- pédoncule
pédoncule
41,809 corpus weight
- quinquennale
quinquennale
41,807 corpus weight
- quinta
quinta
41,806 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pédoncule » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pédoncule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.dɔ̃.kyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pédoncule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pédoncule is uncommon French at frequency #58,192 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.dɔ̃.kyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
pédoncule doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pédoncule, spelled P-É-D-O-N-C-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Tige (ou queue) d’une fleur (et donc, après fécondation, d’un fruit), distincte de la tige de la plante.
- 2Support d’une partie quelconque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pédoncule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leur pédoncule vert et frisé est vraiment bien réussi.
Sur 382 variétés observées pendant trois ans, seulement six variétés rouges et deux variétés blanches présentent une très bonne aptitude à la récolte sans pédoncule. […] Il est à noter que jusqu’à présent aucune variété rouge précoce n’est susceptible d’être récoltée sans pédoncule.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).