Le Pirée
\lə pi.ʁe\
The verdict
“Le Pirée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Port maritime d’Athènes, ouvert sur la mer Égée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-le-piree · Le Pirée · French
Le Pirée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" 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 | Le Pirée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \lə pi.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Le Pirée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Le Pirée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \lə pi.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Port maritime d’Athènes, ouvert sur la mer Égée.".
Le Pirée 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Le Pirée, spelled L-E- -P-I-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Port maritime d’Athènes, ouvert sur la mer Égée.
This word in other languages
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