pénétrations

\pe.ne.tʁa.sjɔ̃\

/\pe.ne.tʁa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“pénétrations” is uncommon French (frequency #81,467 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,467
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pénétration.

Corpus desk

Index FR-penetrations · pénétrations · French

pénétrations · rank #81,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,467
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pékinois

Nearest frequency peer: pékinois (-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 « pénétrations »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pénétrations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for pénétrations
PropertyValue
Headwordpénétrations
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pe.ne.tʁa.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#81,467
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « pénétrations » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pénétrationstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « pékinois » (#81,466), « péricliter » (#81,468), « pétrodollars » (#81,469). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pénétrations » est au #81,467. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pénétrations is uncommon French at frequency #81,467 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ne.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pénétration.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pénétrations, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pénétrations, spelled P-É-N-É-T-R-A-T-I-O-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de pénétration.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pénétrations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La commission de Décoration avait attribué cette salle, dont les surfaces propres à recevoir des peintures se bornent aux voussures, aux tympans et aux pénétrations de la voûte de la tribune, à M. Cabanel qui peignit dans la salle ancienne, les tympans des portes et fenêtres ; mais l’artiste mourut avant d’avoir même commencé les études de ce travail.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pénétrations"?
"pénétrations" is spelled P-É-N-É-T-R-A-T-I-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pe.ne.tʁa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "pénétrations" mean?
As a noun, "pénétrations" means: Pluriel de pénétration.
How do you pronounce "pénétrations"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pénétrations" is \pe.ne.tʁa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pénétrations", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list