épinette
\e.pi.nɛt\
The verdict
“épinette” is uncommon French (frequency #57,713 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,713
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument de musique ressemblant à un petit clavecin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epinette · épinette · French
épinette · rank #57,713 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,713
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épicéa
Nearest frequency peer: épicéa (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « épinette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Énée
Énée
42,291 corpus weight
- épaissir
épaissir
42,290 corpus weight
- épicéa
épicéa
42,289 corpus weight
- épinette
épinette
42,288 corpus weight
- équatorial
équatorial
42,287 corpus weight
- œnologie
œnologie
42,286 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « épinette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épinette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pi.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « épinette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
épinette is uncommon French at frequency #57,713 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pi.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for épinette in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is épinette, spelled É-P-I-N-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument de musique ressemblant à un petit clavecin.
- 2Instrument de musique apparenté à la cithare.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how épinette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jouer de l’épinette.
Comme en un concert d’instruments, on n’oit pas un luth, une épinette et la flûte, on oit une harmonie en globe, l’assemblage et le fruit de tout cet amas.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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