penguin
\ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪn\
The verdict
“penguin” is uncommon French (frequency #50,410 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,410
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manchot, gorfou, oiseau de genre Spheniscidae vivant dans l’hémisphère sud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-penguin · penguin · French
penguin · rank #50,410 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,410
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pec
Nearest frequency peer: pec (-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 « penguin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pavaner
pavaner
49,594 corpus weight
- paya
paya
49,593 corpus weight
- pec
pec
49,592 corpus weight
- penguin
penguin
49,591 corpus weight
- percevant
percevant
49,590 corpus weight
- perpétrées
perpétrées
49,589 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « penguin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penguin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « penguin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
penguin is uncommon French at frequency #50,410 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
penguin has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 penguin, spelled P-E-N-G-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Manchot, gorfou, oiseau de genre Spheniscidae vivant dans l’hémisphère sud.
- 2Grand pingouin, espèce éteinte de nom scientifique Pinguinus impennis.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).