rorquals
\ʁɔʁ.kal\
The verdict
“rorquals” is uncommon French (frequency #98,445 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,445
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rorqual.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rorquals · rorquals · French
rorquals · rank #98,445 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,445
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rouvres
Nearest frequency peer: rouvres (+2 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 « rorquals »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ripe
ripe
1,560 corpus weight
- ritaline
ritaline
1,559 corpus weight
- rorquals
rorquals
1,556 corpus weight
- rouvres
rouvres
1,554 corpus weight
- rubra
rubra
1,552 corpus weight
- Ruffec
Ruffec
1,551 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rorquals » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rorquals |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔʁ.kal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rorquals » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rorquals is uncommon French at frequency #98,445 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔʁ.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rorqual.".
rorquals has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rorquals, spelled R-O-R-Q-U-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rorqual.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rorquals appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durant la seule année 1930, 30 000 rorquals périrent sous les harpons des chasseurs.
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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