peiner
\pe.ne\
The verdict
“peiner” is uncommon French (frequency #63,987 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,987
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire de la peine, causer du chagrin, de l’inquiétude, affliger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peiner · peiner · French
peiner · rank #63,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,987
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patricien
Nearest frequency peer: patricien (-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 « peiner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- patauger
patauger
36,017 corpus weight
- patricien
patricien
36,015 corpus weight
- peiner
peiner
36,014 corpus weight
- Pembroke
Pembroke
36,013 corpus weight
- Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
36,012 corpus weight
- percevra
percevra
36,011 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « peiner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peiner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peiner is uncommon French at frequency #63,987 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pe.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire de la peine, causer du chagrin, de l’inquiétude, affliger.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for peiner in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is peiner, spelled P-E-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire de la peine, causer du chagrin, de l’inquiétude, affliger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Je crois que tu te trompes, Thabo savait que je t’aimais plus que tout, en ce temps-là, et il n’aurait rien fait qui puisse me peiner, lui !
Cette nouvelle m’a beaucoup peiné.
Synonyms
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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