MAP: The French place names you find hardest to pronounce

Caen, Pineuilh, Cunlhat: which of our readers' suggestions do you find trickiest to say?

Connexion readers shared their suggestions of France’s most unpronounceable place names.

Emma Morgan Emma Morgan

Published Thursday 08 December 2022 - 08:29 Modified Thursday 08 December 2022 - 08:29

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We recently asked Connexion readers for the French place names they find difficult or impossible to pronounce.

Suggestions included Cunlhat (Puy-de-Dôme), Clermont-Pouyguillès (Gers) , Ouilly-du-Houley (Calvados), Marquixanes (Pyrénées-Orientales), Houeillès (Lot-et-Garonne), Fouesnant (Finistère), Caen (Calvados) and Pineuilh (Gironde).

We have created a map of these places so that you can make sure to visit them and give pronouncing their name a go when you are next in the area.

Below is a searchable version of the map.

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