pentagone
\pɛ̃.ta.ɡɔn\
The verdict
“pentagone” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,203. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,203
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a cinq angles et cinq côtés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pentagone · pentagone · French
pentagone · rank #16,203 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,203
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH penchant
Nearest frequency peer: penchant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pentagone »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- patrouilles
patrouilles
83,801 corpus weight
- pearl
pearl
83,800 corpus weight
- penchant
penchant
83,799 corpus weight
- pentagone
pentagone
83,798 corpus weight
- peuplée
peuplée
83,796 corpus weight
- physiologie
physiologie
83,795 corpus weight
What this shows « pentagone » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pentagone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛ̃.ta.ɡɔn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pentagone »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around pentagone (IPA \pɛ̃.ta.ɡɔn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,203 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a cinq angles et cinq côtés.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for pentagone, with forms such as "epntagone", "penatgone", and "penntagone". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pentagone, spelled P-E-N-T-A-G-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a cinq angles et cinq côtés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pentagone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Figure pentagone.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epntagone
- penatgone
- penntagone
- pentaggone
- pentagnoe
- pentagoen
- pentagonne
- pentaogne
- pentgaone
- penttagone
- petnagone
- pnetagone
- ppentagone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pentagone - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).