peignez
\pe.ɲe\
The verdict
“peignez” is uncommon French (frequency #83,240 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,240
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de peigner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peignez · peignez · French
peignez · rank #83,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,240
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pede
Nearest frequency peer: pede (-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 « peignez »
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 « peignez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peignez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peignez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peignez is uncommon French at frequency #83,240 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pe.ɲe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
peignez has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is peignez, spelled P-E-I-G-N-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de peigner.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de peigner.
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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