pharynx
\fa.ʁɛ̃ks\
The verdict
“pharynx” is uncommon French (frequency #68,541 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,541
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cavité musculo-membraneuse, séparée de la bouche par le voile du palais et se continuant par l’œsophage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pharynx · pharynx · French
pharynx · rank #68,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,541
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perçants
Nearest frequency peer: perçants (-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 « pharynx »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perforés
perforés
31,463 corpus weight
- perruches
perruches
31,462 corpus weight
- perçants
perçants
31,461 corpus weight
- pharynx
pharynx
31,460 corpus weight
- phra
phra
31,459 corpus weight
- phytoplanct…
phytoplancton
31,458 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pharynx » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pharynx |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.ʁɛ̃ks\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pharynx » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pharynx is uncommon French at frequency #68,541 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fa.ʁɛ̃ks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cavité musculo-membraneuse, séparée de la bouche par le voile du palais et se continuant par l’œsophage.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pharynx in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 pharynx, spelled P-H-A-R-Y-N-X.
Definition
- 1Cavité musculo-membraneuse, séparée de la bouche par le voile du palais et se continuant par l’œsophage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pharynx appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Marquis.– Mon médecin est un âne… il me soigne pour un asthme… (Avec colère.) Un asthme !… C’est un cure-dent que j’ai avalé il y a quatre ans… il m’est resté dans le pharynx… Quand le temps change, il remue, et ça me fait tousser.
Le pharynx est tapissé intérieurement par une intima chitineuse dont l'épaisseur atteint 2 à 3 µ chez la larve et 5 à 7 µ chez l'imago. Cette intima présente à l'origine de la cavité buccale une série de prolongements acérés en forme de dents aiguës ayant 3 à 5 µ de long.
This word in other languages
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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