peignent
\pɛɲ\
The verdict
“peignent” is uncommon French (frequency #54,787 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,787
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif du verbe peindre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peignent · peignent · French
peignent · rank #54,787 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,787
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perpétrée
Nearest frequency peer: perpétrée (+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 « peignent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- patou
patou
45,217 corpus weight
- pavement
pavement
45,216 corpus weight
- peignent
peignent
45,214 corpus weight
- perpétrée
perpétrée
45,213 corpus weight
- Perreault
Perreault
45,212 corpus weight
- phallique
phallique
45,211 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « peignent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peignent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛɲ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peignent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peignent is uncommon French at frequency #54,787 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for peignent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is peignent, spelled P-E-I-G-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif du verbe peindre.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif du verbe peindre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how peignent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne tient pas contre de telles réponses, surtout quand elles sont accompagnées d’un séjour de trois heures dans une chétive auberge de la Basse-Indre, où nous avons déjeuné de poisson frais dans une petite chambre comme en peignent les peintres de genre, et par les fenêtres de laquelle on entendait mugir les forges d’Indret à travers la belle nappe de l…
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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