penaud
\pə.no\
The verdict
“penaud” is uncommon French (frequency #61,019 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,019
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est embarrassé, honteux, décontenancé par le fait d’une déconvenue ou d’une déception.
Corpus desk
Index FR-penaud · penaud · French
penaud · rank #61,019 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,019
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paysagers
Nearest frequency peer: paysagers (-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 « penaud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pats
pats
38,985 corpus weight
- paw
paw
38,984 corpus weight
- paysagers
paysagers
38,983 corpus weight
- penaud
penaud
38,982 corpus weight
- pensantes
pensantes
38,981 corpus weight
- pensive
pensive
38,980 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « penaud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penaud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pə.no\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « penaud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
penaud is uncommon French at frequency #61,019 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pə.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est embarrassé, honteux, décontenancé par le fait d’une déconvenue ou d’une déception.".
No misspelling variants are generated for penaud in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is penaud, spelled P-E-N-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Qui est embarrassé, honteux, décontenancé par le fait d’une déconvenue ou d’une déception.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how penaud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le caporal, tout penaud, dut se résigner, et la marche du détachement, un instant interrompue, fut reprise aussitôt.
Trois heures après, Boisvert reparut tout penaud, avec une paire de souliers, mais sans mouton.
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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