pétunia
\pe.ty.nja\
The verdict
“pétunia” is uncommon French (frequency #95,207 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,207
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante du genre Petunia de la famille des solanacées, originaire d’Amérique du Sud, et qu’on cultive en Europe pour l’ornement des jardins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petunia · pétunia · French
pétunia · rank #95,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,207
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pénétraient
Nearest frequency peer: pénétraient (-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 « pétunia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pythagorici…
pythagoriciens
4,797 corpus weight
- pâtres
pâtres
4,796 corpus weight
- pénétraient
pénétraient
4,795 corpus weight
- pétunia
pétunia
4,794 corpus weight
- quattrocento
quattrocento
4,793 corpus weight
- quinquagéna…
quinquagénaires
4,791 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pétunia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétunia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ty.nja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétunia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétunia is uncommon French at frequency #95,207 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ty.nja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante du genre Petunia de la famille des solanacées, originaire d’Amérique du Sud, et qu’on cultive en Europe pour l’ornement des jardins.".
pétunia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 pétunia, spelled P-É-T-U-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1Plante du genre Petunia de la famille des solanacées, originaire d’Amérique du Sud, et qu’on cultive en Europe pour l’ornement des jardins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pétunia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pétunia accumule ainsi différents dérivés glycosylés de la cyanidine, de la delphinidine, de la péonidine, de la pétunidine et de la malvidine.
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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