Similar words
manchot
Technically, manchot pingouin refers to the auk, a related bird from the Northern Hemisphere — though colloquially both are used for "penguin" in everyday French.
Similar in other languages
German
Pinguin
Pinguin is the German word for the same thing — both mean "penguin."
Spanish
pingüino
pingüino is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "penguin."
Portuguese
pinguim
pinguim is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "penguin."
Practice
1 What does pingouin mean?
imp
chess clock
bestseller
penguin
penguin
2 Fill the gap: Le ___ glisse sur la glace pour se déplacer.
pingouins
pingouin
wyoming
Full sentence: Le pingouin glisse sur la glace pour se déplacer. (The penguin slides on the ice to move around.)
3 Which fingerprint chart matches pingouin?
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Word fingerprint: Register: neutral. Era: current. Frequency: core. Domain: general. Connotation: neutral.
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Neutral
Word fingerprint: Register: neutral. Era: current. Frequency: common. Domain: legal. Connotation: neutral.
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Word fingerprint: Register: neutral. Era: current. Frequency: common. Domain: general. Connotation: neutral.
pingouin: neutral register, core frequency, general domain, neutral connotation.