requin pèlerin
The verdict
“requin pèlerin” 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
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Espèce de requin énorme des mers tempérées, à haute nageoire dorsale et dont la bouche est distendue lorsqu'il se nourrit, à 5 paires de longues fentes branchiales, au dos noirâtre à gris-brun, ino...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | requin pèlerin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.kɛ̃ pɛl.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “requin pèlerin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for requin pèlerin is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.kɛ̃ pɛl.ʁɛ̃\. 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: "Espèce de requin énorme des mers tempérées, à haute nageoire dorsale et dont la bouche est distendue lorsqu'il se nourrit, à 5 paires de longues fentes branchiales, au dos noirâtre à gris-brun, ino...".
No misspelling variants are generated for requin pèlerin 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 pèlerin, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-N- -P-È-L-E-R-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de requin énorme des mers tempérées, à haute nageoire dorsale et dont la bouche est distendue lorsqu'il se nourrit, à 5 paires de longues fentes branchiales, au dos noirâtre à gris-brun, inoffensif car mangeur de plancton.
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Using “requin pèlerin”
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- The one correct French spelling is R-E-Q-U-I-N- -P-È-L-E-R-I-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁə.kɛ̃ pɛl.ʁɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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