pech
\ˈpeʃː\
The verdict
“pech” is uncommon French (frequency #56,813 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,813
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Piège (machine dissimulée dont on se sert pour prendre des animaux, comme les loups, les renards, etc).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pech · pech · French
pech · rank #56,813 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,813
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Paulhan
Nearest frequency peer: Paulhan (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pech »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- participons
participons
43,193 corpus weight
- parviendrait
parviendrait
43,192 corpus weight
- password
password
43,191 corpus weight
- Paulhan
Paulhan
43,189 corpus weight
- pech
pech
43,188 corpus weight
- pilgrim
pilgrim
43,184 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pech » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pech |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpeʃː\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pech » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pech is uncommon French at frequency #56,813 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpeʃː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Piège (machine dissimulée dont on se sert pour prendre des animaux, comme les loups, les renards, etc).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pech, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pech, spelled P-E-C-H.
Definition
- 1Piège (machine dissimulée dont on se sert pour prendre des animaux, comme les loups, les renards, etc).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pech appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nʼem eus mui stignet pechoù abaoe, koulz lavarout, nemet ur wech ma veze debret ar vioù e klud ar yer.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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