rorqual
\ʁɔʁ.kal\
The verdict
“rorqual” is uncommon French (frequency #94,219 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,219
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèces de baleines à fanons qui se distinguent par leurs sillons ventraux (ou gulaires) longitudinaux s’étendant de l’avant du rostre à un certain point sur le ventre, parfois loin en arrière des ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-rorqual · rorqual · French
rorqual · rank #94,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,219
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rompez
Nearest frequency peer: rompez (-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 « rorqual »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- romi
romi
5,784 corpus weight
- rompez
rompez
5,783 corpus weight
- rorqual
rorqual
5,782 corpus weight
- Rouy
Rouy
5,781 corpus weight
- royans
royans
5,780 corpus weight
- Ruanda
Ruanda
5,779 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rorqual » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rorqual |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔʁ.kal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rorqual » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rorqual is uncommon French at frequency #94,219 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔʁ.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèces de baleines à fanons qui se distinguent par leurs sillons ventraux (ou gulaires) longitudinaux s’étendant de l’avant du rostre à un certain point sur le ventre, parfois loin en arrière des ...".
Zero misspellings are on record for rorqual in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct French form is rorqual, spelled R-O-R-Q-U-A-L.
Definition
- 1Espèces de baleines à fanons qui se distinguent par leurs sillons ventraux (ou gulaires) longitudinaux s’étendant de l’avant du rostre à un certain point sur le ventre, parfois loin en arrière des nageoires pectorales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rorqual appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le rorqual commun possède entre 300 et 400 fanons.
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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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