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picot

noun, verb

picot is spelled P-I-C-O-T: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, picot means “An embroidery trim made of a series of small loops” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of picot is picots.

How many letters and syllables are in picot?

Letters5: P-I-C-O-T
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 66,686th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is picot?

Picot appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What rhymes with picot?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as picot.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: topic, optic.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of picot

  • picots plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • picoting participle, present
  • picoted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does picot mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An embroidery trim made of a series of small loops.

verb

  1. 1

    To do this kind of embroidery.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does picot come from?

From French picot, from piquer (“to prick”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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