pénétrations
\pe.ne.tʁa.sjɔ̃\
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
- prêterait
prêterait
18,538 corpus weight
- pékinois
pékinois
18,535 corpus weight
- pénétrations
pénétrations
18,534 corpus weight
- péricliter
péricliter
18,533 corpus weight
- pétrodollars
pétrodollars
18,532 corpus weight
- pêchées
pêchées
18,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pénétrations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pénétrations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ne.tʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #81,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pénétrations » en français
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
- 1Pluriel de pénétration.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pénétrations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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