à pic
\a pik\
The verdict
“à pic” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Endroit d’une montagne dont la pente est très escarpée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-a-pic · à pic · French
à pic · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "À" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | à pic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a pik\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « à pic » en français
Rare enough to double-check
à pic is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a pik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Endroit d’une montagne dont la pente est très escarpée.".
à pic has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is à pic, spelled À- -P-I-C.
Definition
- 1Endroit d’une montagne dont la pente est très escarpée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how à pic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les alpinistes eurent du mal à passer cet à pic rocheux.
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.