pécaïre
\pe.ˈkaj.ʁe\
The verdict
“pécaïre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interjection pour exprimer la peine, la pitié, l’étonnement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pecaire · pécaïre · French
pécaïre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | pécaïre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \pe.ˈkaj.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pécaïre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \pe.ˈkaj.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Interjection pour exprimer la peine, la pitié, l’étonnement.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pécaïre, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pécaïre, spelled P-É-C-A-Ï-R-E.
Definition
- 1Interjection pour exprimer la peine, la pitié, l’étonnement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pécaïre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Nous viendrons le chercher demain, dit M. Eyssette, sur les bateaux, rien ne s’égare ! » Et là-dessus, malgré mes larmes, il m’entraîna. Pécaïre ! le lendemain on l’envoya chercher et on ne le trouva pas…
Pécaïre ! Pauvre Renaude !… Ça ne fait rien, monsieur Seguin, laissez-moi aller dans la montagne.
Synonyms
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.