Phnom Penh
The verdict
“Phnom Penh” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Capitale du Cambodge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Phnom Penh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pnɔm pɛn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Phnom Penh” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Phnom Penh is 10 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pnɔm pɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Phnom Penh in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Phnom Penh, spelled P-H-N-O-M- -P-E-N-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capitale du Cambodge.
- 2Gouvernement cambodgien ^([2]).
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Phnom Penh”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-H-N-O-M- -P-E-N-H — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pnɔm pɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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