pénalisant
\pe.na.li.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“pénalisant” is uncommon French (frequency #50,453 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,453
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui pénalise, qui désavantage sur le plan économique, financier, ou social.
Corpus desk
Index FR-penalisant · pénalisant · French
pénalisant · rank #50,453 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,453
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH punchlines
Nearest frequency peer: punchlines (-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 « pénalisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Publicis
Publicis
49,550 corpus weight
- punchlines
punchlines
49,549 corpus weight
- pénalisant
pénalisant
49,548 corpus weight
- péroné
péroné
49,547 corpus weight
- pétale
pétale
49,546 corpus weight
- pétée
pétée
49,545 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pénalisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pénalisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pe.na.li.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pénalisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pénalisant is uncommon French at frequency #50,453 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pe.na.li.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui pénalise, qui désavantage sur le plan économique, financier, ou social.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pénalisant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pénalisant, spelled P-É-N-A-L-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui pénalise, qui désavantage sur le plan économique, financier, ou social.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pénalisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans son dernier ouvrage, Reprenons-nous!, Jean-Paul Delevoye, le président du Conseil économique, social et environnemental, partageait également ce constat d’une école devenue «machine à exclure». Ce système provoque des effets de plus en plus pervers et pénalisants pour l’ensemble du pays.
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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