peignée
\pe.ɲe\
The verdict
“peignée” is uncommon French (frequency #97,266 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,266
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Correction administrée avec une certaine rudesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peignee · peignée · French
peignée · rank #97,266 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,266
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pencherait
Nearest frequency peer: pencherait (+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 « peignée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paumer
paumer
2,739 corpus weight
- payements
payements
2,738 corpus weight
- peignée
peignée
2,735 corpus weight
- pencherait
pencherait
2,734 corpus weight
- pencil
pencil
2,733 corpus weight
- personelle
personelle
2,730 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « peignée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peignée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peignée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peignée is uncommon French at frequency #97,266 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pe.ɲe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for peignée, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is peignée, spelled P-E-I-G-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Correction administrée avec une certaine rudesse.
- 2Quantité de matière textile que l’ouvrier met sur le peigne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peignée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a reçu une sérieuse peignée.
Les autres avaient pu croire, un moment, que les deux apprentis caïds s’étaient flanqué la peignée et que Micou avait eu le dessous ; mais Perrot lui-même avait remis les choses au point.
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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