pentathlon
\pɛ̃.ta.tlɔ̃\
The verdict
“pentathlon” is uncommon French (frequency #83,241 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,241
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épreuve sportive constituée de cinq disciplines
Corpus desk
Index FR-pentathlon · pentathlon · French
pentathlon · rank #83,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,241
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peignez
Nearest frequency peer: peignez (-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 « pentathlon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- passeron
passeron
16,765 corpus weight
- paste
paste
16,764 corpus weight
- pede
pede
16,762 corpus weight
- peignez
peignez
16,761 corpus weight
- pentathlon
pentathlon
16,760 corpus weight
- personnifier
personnifier
16,757 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pentathlon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pentathlon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃.ta.tlɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pentathlon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pentathlon is uncommon French at frequency #83,241 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛ̃.ta.tlɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pentathlon, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pentathlon, spelled P-E-N-T-A-T-H-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Épreuve sportive constituée de cinq disciplines
- 2Discipline de l'athlétisme, ancêtre de l'heptathlon.
- 3Discipline de l'athlétisme féminin en salle comprenant dans l'ordre le 60 m haies, le saut en hauteur, le lancer du poids, le saut en longueur et le 800 m.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pentathlon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pentathlon sous sa forme moderne fut inventé par le baron Pierre de Coubertin.
Le pentathlon féminin figura au programme olympique de 1964 à 1980.
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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