piscine
/ˈpɪsaɪn/
"piscine" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“piscine” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-piscine · piscine · English
piscine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piscine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈpɪsaɪn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “piscine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
piscine is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈpɪsaɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic.".
Zero misspellings are on record for piscine in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Latin piscinus or from Latin piscis (“fish”) + -ine. The correct English form is piscine, spelled P-I-S-C-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piscine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the ancient Middle East certain cults had piscine deities, or deities with fish attributes of various kinds.
2009, David Quammen, Where the Salmon Rule, National Geographic (August 2009), page 40, At age four he caught his first fish and was evermore fascinated by things piscine; […]
Etymology
From Late Latin piscinus or from Latin piscis (“fish”) + -ine.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.