pentasyllabe
\pɛ̃.ta.si.lab\
The verdict
“pentasyllabe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé de cinq syllabes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pentasyllabe · pentasyllabe · French
pentasyllabe · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pentasyllabe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛ̃.ta.si.lab\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pentasyllabe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɛ̃.ta.si.lab\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composé de cinq syllabes.".
pentasyllabe doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 pentasyllabe, spelled P-E-N-T-A-S-Y-L-L-A-B-E.
Definition
- 1Composé de cinq syllabes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pentasyllabe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce vers pentasyllabe ne rimant à rien, deux savants éditeurs modernes, que n’a heureusement pas suivis M. Schröer, se sont avisés de le souder au suivant, qui est de 8 syllabes, et devient ainsi de 13, sans compter la finale féminine, qui l’élève à 13 ½. Il n’y a là sans doute rien de monstrueux, comme on pourrait le croire en France : La versification al…
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.