pipette
/pɪˈpɛt/
"pipette" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pipette” is uncommon English (frequency #68,533 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,533
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pipette · pipette · English
pipette · rank #68,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,533
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pirating
Nearest frequency peer: pirating (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “pipette”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- perioperati…
perioperative
31,471 corpus weight
- Persepolis
Persepolis
31,470 corpus weight
- pipette
pipette
31,468 corpus weight
- pirating
pirating
31,467 corpus weight
- piso
piso
31,466 corpus weight
- pitty
pitty
31,465 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pipette” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “pipette” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pipette is uncommon English at frequency #68,533 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɪˈpɛt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).