pentagramme
\pɛ̃.ta.ɡʁam\
The verdict
“pentagramme” is uncommon French (frequency #92,032 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,032
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme géométrique en forme d’étoile à cinq branches ; quelquefois avec une connotation magique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pentagramme · pentagramme · French
pentagramme · rank #92,032 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,032
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pentecôtiste
Nearest frequency peer: pentecôtiste (+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 « pentagramme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Penner
Penner
7,971 corpus weight
- pentagramme
pentagramme
7,969 corpus weight
- pentecôtiste
pentecôtiste
7,968 corpus weight
- percera
percera
7,967 corpus weight
- perforant
perforant
7,966 corpus weight
- perme
perme
7,965 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pentagramme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pentagramme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃.ta.ɡʁam\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #92,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pentagramme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pentagramme is uncommon French at frequency #92,032 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛ̃.ta.ɡʁam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
pentagramme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 pentagramme, spelled P-E-N-T-A-G-R-A-M-M-E.
Definition
- 1Forme géométrique en forme d’étoile à cinq branches ; quelquefois avec une connotation magique.
- 2Séquence de cinq lettres ou groupe de cinq symboles formant une unité, un phonème ou un mot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pentagramme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mot chantaient a donc deux syllabes, dix graphèmes, deux digrammes (ch et an), un pentagramme (aient) et quatre phonèmes: [ʃã‚tε].
Un module de prédiction basé sur un pentagramme de lettres […] permet ainsi de présenter la lettre attendue dans les trois premières positions en moyenne (2,7 pour le français, 3 pour l’allemand).
This word in other languages
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).