Pentecôte
\pɑ̃t.kot\
The verdict
“Pentecôte” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #23,310 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #23,310
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fête juive du don de la Torah (Chavouot, fête des Semaines), célébrée sept semaines après le second jour de la Pâque.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pentecôte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃t.kot\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pentecôte” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Pentecôte is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑ̃t.kot\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,310 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pentecôte, with forms such as "epntecôte", "penetcôte", and "penntecôte". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Pentecôte, spelled P-E-N-T-E-C-Ô-T-E.
Definition
- 1Fête juive du don de la Torah (Chavouot, fête des Semaines), célébrée sept semaines après le second jour de la Pâque.
- 2Fête chrétienne célébrée le cinquantième jour après Pâques, en mémoire de la descente du Saint-Esprit sur les apôtres.
- 3Île des Vanuatu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epntecôte,penetcôte,penntecôte,pentceôte,penteccôte,pentecote,pentectôe,pentecôet,pentecôtte,penteôcte,penttecôte,petnecôte,pnetecôte,ppentecôte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pentecôte - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Pentecôte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-N-T-E-C-Ô-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɑ̃t.kot\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.