pester
\pɛs.te\
The verdict
“pester” is uncommon French (frequency #64,683 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,683
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Montrer, par des paroles aigres et emportées, le mécontentement qu’on a de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pester · pester · French
pester · rank #64,683 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,683
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pesage
Nearest frequency peer: pesage (-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 « pester »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- persanes
persanes
35,322 corpus weight
- persuasive
persuasive
35,320 corpus weight
- pesage
pesage
35,319 corpus weight
- pester
pester
35,318 corpus weight
- pharmacolog…
pharmacologique
35,317 corpus weight
- piat
piat
35,314 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pester » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pester |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛs.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pester » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pester is uncommon French at frequency #64,683 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛs.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Montrer, par des paroles aigres et emportées, le mécontentement qu’on a de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pester in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pester, spelled P-E-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Montrer, par des paroles aigres et emportées, le mécontentement qu’on a de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pester appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il pestait même contre Alain qui lui avait donné rendez-vous à l'autre bout de Paris, alors qu'il aurait pu choisir le fond de la place du Carrousel aussi désert, […].
Cédric Hapère claqua violemment la porte de la salle d’interrogatoire et se dirigea vers la machine à café en pestant : cette vieille pie les faisait tourner en bourrique !
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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