Jeanneke Pis

\ʒa.nɛ.kə.pis\

/\ʒa.nɛ.kə.pis\/ name

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...

Key facts for Jeanneke Pis
PropertyValue
HeadwordJeanneke Pis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ʒa.nɛ.kə.pis\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Jeanneke Pis” sits in French frequency

Jeanneke Pis falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Jeanneke Pis"?
"Jeanneke Pis" is spelled J-E-A-N-N-E-K-E- -P-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒa.nɛ.kə.pis\.
What does "Jeanneke Pis" mean?
As a proper noun, "Jeanneke Pis" means: 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...
How do you pronounce "Jeanneke Pis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Jeanneke Pis" is \ʒa.nɛ.kə.pis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “Jeanneke Pis”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Say it as \ʒa.nɛ.kə.pis\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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