Jeanneke Pis
\ʒa.nɛ.kə.pis\
The verdict
“Jeanneke Pis” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Statuette de bronze située sur une fontaine qui se trouve dans l'impasse de la Fidélité près de la rue des Bouchers, à Bruxelles, et pendant féminin du Manneken-pis, situé de l'autre côté de la Gra...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jeanneke Pis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʒa.nɛ.kə.pis\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Jeanneke Pis” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Jeanneke Pis is 12 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒa.nɛ.kə.pis\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Statuette de bronze située sur une fontaine qui se trouve dans l'impasse de la Fidélité près de la rue des Bouchers, à Bruxelles, et pendant féminin du Manneken-pis, situé de l'autre côté de la Gra...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Jeanneke Pis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Jeanneke Pis, spelled J-E-A-N-N-E-K-E- -P-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Statuette de bronze située sur une fontaine qui se trouve dans l'impasse de la Fidélité près de la rue des Bouchers, à Bruxelles, et pendant féminin du Manneken-pis, situé de l'autre côté de la Grand-Place de Bruxelles.
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.
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Using “Jeanneke Pis”
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- The one correct French spelling is J-E-A-N-N-E-K-E- -P-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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