pêcherie
\pɛʃ.ʁi\
The verdict
“pêcherie” is uncommon French (frequency #70,980 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,980
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu aménagé pour la pêche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pecherie · pêcherie · French
pêcherie · rank #70,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,980
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pyromanes
Nearest frequency peer: pyromanes (-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 « pêcherie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- puniques
puniques
29,025 corpus weight
- pyromanes
pyromanes
29,022 corpus weight
- pêcherie
pêcherie
29,021 corpus weight
- quarteron
quarteron
29,019 corpus weight
- quatrièmeme…
quatrièmement
29,018 corpus weight
- quiero
quiero
29,017 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pêcherie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pêcherie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʃ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pêcherie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pêcherie is uncommon French at frequency #70,980 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʃ.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pêcherie, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pêcherie, spelled P-Ê-C-H-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu aménagé pour la pêche.
- 2Lieu aménagé pour une entreprise de pêche.
- 3Réservoir à bonde pour l’arrosement des prairies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pêcherie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Partout, dans l’eau verte des pêcheries, dans la houle des prairies, sous les fougères qui coupent, au creux des taillis se cachaient des trésors que je brûlais de découvrir.
Face au grand perron, il y avait une pêcherie où souvent des servantes lavaient du linge à grands coups de battoir ; une pelouse descendait en pente raide jusqu’à une bâtisse, plus ancienne que le château : la « maison d’en bas », remplie de harnais et de toiles d’araignée.
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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