Pentecôte

\pɑ̃t.kot\

/\pɑ̃t.kot\/ name

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The verdict

“Pentecôte” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,310. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,310
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
14
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fête juive du don de la Torah (Chavouot, fête des Semaines), célébrée sept semaines après le second jour de la Pâque.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pentecote · Pentecôte · French

Pentecôte · rank #23,310 · 14 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,310
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH patin

Nearest frequency peer: patin (-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 « Pentecôte »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Pentecôte » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Pentecôte
PropertyValue
HeadwordPentecôte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\pɑ̃t.kot\
Letters9
Frequency rank#23,310
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Pentecôte »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Pentecôtese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « patin » (#23,309), « phénix » (#23,311), « parabole » (#23,308). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Pentecôte » est au #23,310. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around Pentecôte (IPA \pɑ̃t.kot\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,310 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Fête juive du don de la Torah (Chavouot, fête des Semaines), célébrée sept semaines après le second jour de la Pâque.
  2. 2
    Fête chrétienne célébrée le cinquantième jour après Pâques, en mémoire de la descente du Saint-Esprit sur les apôtres.
  3. 3
    Île des Vanuatu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Pentecôte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] puis quand minuit sonna, il fit observer à sa pieuse compagne qu’on était arrivé au samedi de la Pentecôte et qu’il croyait lui être agréable en ne l’égarant point au sein des voluptés un jour de vigile et de jeûne.
  2. Le Vent Paraclet évoque les diverses « Pentecôtes » de son auteur, comment « les flammes de la passion philosophique lui touchèrent le front ou comment lui furent révélés les mystères de la culture allemande ».

This word in other languages

Shavuot(English)Pentecostés(Español)Schawuot(Deutsch)Pentecostes(Português)

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.

epntecôte2penetcôte2penntecôte1pentceôte2penteccôte1pentecote1pentectôe2pentecôet2
Edit distance from "Pentecôte"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Pentecôte"?
"Pentecôte" is spelled P-E-N-T-E-C-Ô-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɑ̃t.kot\.
What does "Pentecôte" mean?
As a proper noun, "Pentecôte" means: Fête juive du don de la Torah (Chavouot, fête des Semaines), célébrée sept semaines après le second jour de la Pâque.
What are common misspellings of "Pentecôte"?
Common misspellings include "epntecôte", "penetcôte", "penntecôte", "pentceôte", "penteccôte". The correct spelling is "Pentecôte".
How do you pronounce "Pentecôte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Pentecôte" is \pɑ̃t.kot\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Pentecôte" come from?
"Pentecôte" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Pentecôte", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

plomberie#23,313pacifiste#23,306populisme#23,317pénitence#23,326

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

recrutent14 variantsmanquaient14 variantsressembles14 variantsintestins14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list