péniches
\pe.niʃ\
The verdict
“péniches” is uncommon French (frequency #52,932 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,932
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de péniche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peniches · péniches · French
péniches · rank #52,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,932
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH putschistes
Nearest frequency peer: putschistes (-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 « péniches »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- puritain
puritain
47,072 corpus weight
- putréfaction
putréfaction
47,071 corpus weight
- putschistes
putschistes
47,070 corpus weight
- péniches
péniches
47,069 corpus weight
- pétrochimie
pétrochimie
47,068 corpus weight
- quantitatifs
quantitatifs
47,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « péniches » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | péniches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.niʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « péniches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
péniches is uncommon French at frequency #52,932 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.niʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de péniche.".
péniches doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is péniches, spelled P-É-N-I-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de péniche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how péniches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je contemplai le fleuve le trafic des péniches filant vers Maastricht Nijmegen et Rotterdam, la Meuse pressée de se rhénaniser.
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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