phacochère
\fa.kɔ.ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“phacochère” is uncommon French (frequency #83,246 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,246
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mammifère ongulé sauvage, de la famille des suidés, proche du sanglier, vivant dans les savanes africaines et muni de deux défenses dirigées vers le haut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phacochere · phacochère · French
phacochère · rank #83,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,246
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Philipps
Nearest frequency peer: Philipps (+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 « phacochère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pentathlon
pentathlon
16,760 corpus weight
- personnifier
personnifier
16,757 corpus weight
- phacochère
phacochère
16,755 corpus weight
- Philipps
Philipps
16,754 corpus weight
- pipa
pipa
16,751 corpus weight
- piscicole
piscicole
16,750 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « phacochère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | phacochère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.kɔ.ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « phacochère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
phacochère is uncommon French at frequency #83,246 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.kɔ.ʃɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mammifère ongulé sauvage, de la famille des suidés, proche du sanglier, vivant dans les savanes africaines et muni de deux défenses dirigées vers le haut.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for phacochère in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 phacochère, spelled P-H-A-C-O-C-H-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Mammifère ongulé sauvage, de la famille des suidés, proche du sanglier, vivant dans les savanes africaines et muni de deux défenses dirigées vers le haut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how phacochère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est pourquoi le phacochère est mentionné et loué dans quelques chants entonnés pendant la cure pour le remercier d’en avoir révélé, même sans le vouloir explicitement , les médicaments.
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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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