requin du Groenland
\ʁə.kɛ̃ dy ɡʁɔ.ɛn.lɑ̃d\
The verdict
“requin du Groenland” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom usuel de Somniosus microcephalus, grand requin — de 2 à 4 mètres — qui vit dans le nord de l’océan Atlantique, de couleur grise ou brune.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | requin du Groenland |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɛ̃ dy ɡʁɔ.ɛn.lɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “requin du Groenland” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for requin du Groenland is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɛ̃ dy ɡʁɔ.ɛn.lɑ̃d\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom usuel de Somniosus microcephalus, grand requin — de 2 à 4 mètres — qui vit dans le nord de l’océan Atlantique, de couleur grise ou brune.".
No misspelling variants are generated for requin du Groenland 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 requin du Groenland, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-N- -D-U- -G-R-O-E-N-L-A-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel de Somniosus microcephalus, grand requin — de 2 à 4 mètres — qui vit dans le nord de l’océan Atlantique, de couleur grise ou brune.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-E-Q-U-I-N- -D-U- -G-R-O-E-N-L-A-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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