Pézenas
\pe.z(ə.)nɑs\
The verdict
“Pézenas” is uncommon French (frequency #64,032 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,032
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Hérault.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pezenas · Pézenas · French
Pézenas · rank #64,032 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,032
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pétant
Nearest frequency peer: pétant (-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 « Pézenas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pyrotechniq…
pyrotechniques
35,972 corpus weight
- pâtures
pâtures
35,971 corpus weight
- pétant
pétant
35,970 corpus weight
- Pézenas
Pézenas
35,969 corpus weight
- quads
quads
35,968 corpus weight
- questeur
questeur
35,967 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pézenas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pézenas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pe.z(ə.)nɑs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pézenas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pézenas is uncommon French at frequency #64,032 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pe.z(ə.)nɑs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Pézenas in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Pézenas, spelled P-É-Z-E-N-A-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Hérault.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de l’Hérault.
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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