Pentagon
\ˈpɛntaˈɡɔn\
The verdict
“Pentagon” is uncommon French (frequency #85,121 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,121
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pentagone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pentagon · Pentagon · French
Pentagon · rank #85,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,121
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pendaient
Nearest frequency peer: pendaient (-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 « Pentagon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peinturer
peinturer
14,884 corpus weight
- pele
pele
14,883 corpus weight
- pelées
pelées
14,882 corpus weight
- pendaient
pendaient
14,881 corpus weight
- Pentagon
Pentagon
14,880 corpus weight
- perceptive
perceptive
14,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pentagon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pentagon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɛntaˈɡɔn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pentagon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pentagon is uncommon French at frequency #85,121 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpɛntaˈɡɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pentagone.".
Pentagon has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Pentagon, spelled P-E-N-T-A-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pentagone.
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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