pede
\ˈpeː.de\
The verdict
“pede” is uncommon French (frequency #83,239 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,239
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe pediñ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pede · pede · French
pede · rank #83,239 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,239
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peignez
Nearest frequency peer: peignez (+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 « pede »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- passeron
passeron
16,765 corpus weight
- paste
paste
16,764 corpus weight
- pede
pede
16,762 corpus weight
- peignez
peignez
16,761 corpus weight
- pentathlon
pentathlon
16,760 corpus weight
- personnifier
personnifier
16,757 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pede » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pede |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈpeː.de\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pede » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pede is uncommon French at frequency #83,239 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈpeː.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe pediñ.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pede, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pede, spelled P-E-D-E.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe pediñ.
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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