piquet
/pɪˈkɛt/
"piquet" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“piquet” is uncommon English (frequency #84,612 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,612
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
Corpus desk
Index EN-piquet · piquet · English
piquet · rank #84,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,612
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 46,516
- PHOTO-FINISH pinna
Nearest frequency peer: pinna (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “piquet”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Pictou
Pictou
15,392 corpus weight
- PIF
PIF
15,391 corpus weight
- pinna
pinna
15,390 corpus weight
- piquet
piquet
15,389 corpus weight
- plagiarize
plagiarize
15,388 corpus weight
- Platonism
Platonism
15,387 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “piquet” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piquet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɪˈkɛt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “piquet” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
piquet is uncommon English at frequency #84,612 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɪˈkɛt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.".
piquet doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French piquet. The correct English form is piquet, spelled P-I-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
Etymology
From French piquet.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.