pipette
/pɪˈpɛt/
"pipette" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pipette” is an uncommon English word, ranked #68,533 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #68,533
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pipette |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɪˈpɛt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pipette” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for pipette is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɪˈpɛt/. Corpus data places it at rank #68,533 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pipette in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French pipette, from pipe + -ette. The correct English form is pipette, spelled P-I-P-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
Etymology
From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “pipette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-I-P-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.