pélicans
\pe.li.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“pélicans” is uncommon French (frequency #70,139 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,139
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pélican.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pelicans · pélicans · French
pélicans · rank #70,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,139
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pâteuse
Nearest frequency peer: pâteuse (-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 « pélicans »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pyrite
pyrite
29,865 corpus weight
- pyrotechnie
pyrotechnie
29,864 corpus weight
- pâteuse
pâteuse
29,863 corpus weight
- pélicans
pélicans
29,862 corpus weight
- pénitenciers
pénitenciers
29,861 corpus weight
- péremptoires
péremptoires
29,860 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pélicans » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pélicans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.li.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pélicans » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pélicans is uncommon French at frequency #70,139 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.li.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pélican.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pélicans in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pélicans, spelled P-É-L-I-C-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pélican.
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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