Pest
\pɛst\
The verdict
“Pest” is uncommon French (frequency #65,404 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,404
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peste (maladie).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pest · Pest · French
Pest · rank #65,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,404
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perpétuelles
Nearest frequency peer: perpétuelles (-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 « Pest »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pavlov
Pavlov
34,602 corpus weight
- perpétuelles
perpétuelles
34,598 corpus weight
- Pest
Pest
34,597 corpus weight
- phonographe
phonographe
34,595 corpus weight
- phonologique
phonologique
34,594 corpus weight
- photomaton
photomaton
34,593 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pest » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛst\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pest » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pest is uncommon French at frequency #65,404 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peste (maladie).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Pest, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Pest, spelled P-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Peste (maladie).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So brachte die Pest unseren Mitbürgern als Erstes das Exil. (...) Dann wussten wir, dass unsere Trennung andauern sollte und dass wir versuchen mussten, uns auf die Zeit einzustellen.
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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