pédicure
\pe.di.kyʁ\
The verdict
“pédicure” is uncommon French (frequency #51,067 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,067
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Praticien qui soigne les pieds, qui en extirpe ou réduit les cors, les durillons et qui intervient également sur les ongles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pedicure · pédicure · French
pédicure · rank #51,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,067
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préventivement
Nearest frequency peer: préventivement (-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 « pédicure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- précarisati…
précarisation
48,937 corpus weight
- préfaces
préfaces
48,936 corpus weight
- préventivem…
préventivement
48,935 corpus weight
- pédicure
pédicure
48,934 corpus weight
- périlleuses
périlleuses
48,933 corpus weight
- qualitative…
qualitativement
48,932 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pédicure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pédicure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.di.kyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pédicure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pédicure is uncommon French at frequency #51,067 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.di.kyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Praticien qui soigne les pieds, qui en extirpe ou réduit les cors, les durillons et qui intervient également sur les ongles.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pédicure in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 pédicure, spelled P-É-D-I-C-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Praticien qui soigne les pieds, qui en extirpe ou réduit les cors, les durillons et qui intervient également sur les ongles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pédicure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un pédicure, auteur d’un traité de corporistique, qui vous fait vos cors par abonnement, et qui, si les républicains triomphent pendant six mois, deviendra certainement immortel.
This word in other languages
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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