houille piciforme
\uj pi.si.fɔʁm\
The verdict
“houille piciforme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de lignite piciforme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-houille-piciforme · houille piciforme · French
houille piciforme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" 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 | houille piciforme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \uj pi.si.fɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
houille piciforme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \uj pi.si.fɔʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de lignite piciforme.".
houille piciforme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is houille piciforme, spelled H-O-U-I-L-L-E- -P-I-C-I-F-O-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de lignite piciforme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how houille piciforme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jayet que plusieurs minéralogistes ont placé parmi les bitumes purs, est mis par Werner avec les houilles piciformes (pechkohle). Nous pensons qu'on a donné ce nom à plusieurs fossiles différens qui se reportent soit à la houille piciforme, soit à la houille kennet.
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.