pénaux
\pe.no\
The verdict
“pénaux” is uncommon French (frequency #83,289 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,289
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de pénal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-penaux · pénaux · French
pénaux · rank #83,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,289
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pythons
Nearest frequency peer: pythons (-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 « pénaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pune
pune
16,717 corpus weight
- punitifs
punitifs
16,716 corpus weight
- pura
pura
16,715 corpus weight
- pythons
pythons
16,713 corpus weight
- pénaux
pénaux
16,712 corpus weight
- Pérugin
Pérugin
16,711 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pénaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pénaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pe.no\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pénaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pénaux is uncommon French at frequency #83,289 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pe.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de pénal.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pénaux in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 pénaux, spelled P-É-N-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de pénal.
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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