pétoncles
\pe.tɔ̃kl\
The verdict
“pétoncles” is uncommon French (frequency #90,080 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,080
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pétoncle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petoncles · pétoncles · French
pétoncles · rank #90,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,080
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH périphrases
Nearest frequency peer: périphrases (-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 « pétoncles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pédopsychia…
pédopsychiatrie
9,925 corpus weight
- pénalisées
pénalisées
9,923 corpus weight
- périphrases
périphrases
9,922 corpus weight
- pétoncles
pétoncles
9,921 corpus weight
- quartette
quartette
9,918 corpus weight
- quartile
quartile
9,917 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pétoncles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétoncles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.tɔ̃kl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétoncles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétoncles is uncommon French at frequency #90,080 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.tɔ̃kl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pétoncle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pétoncles in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pétoncles, spelled P-É-T-O-N-C-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pétoncle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pétoncles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’Oléron à l’île de Ré, le littoral charentais offre un large terrain de jeu pour pratiquer la pêche à pied à marée basse : araignées, crabes, crevettes, pétoncles, coques…
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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