péteux
\pe.tø\
The verdict
“péteux” is uncommon French (frequency #77,837 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,837
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peureux, pleutre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peteux · péteux · French
péteux · rank #77,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,837
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pépiniériste
Nearest frequency peer: pépiniériste (-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 « péteux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pâquerette
pâquerette
22,167 corpus weight
- pèserait
pèserait
22,166 corpus weight
- pépiniériste
pépiniériste
22,165 corpus weight
- péteux
péteux
22,164 corpus weight
- quadrants
quadrants
22,163 corpus weight
- qual
qual
22,162 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « péteux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | péteux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pe.tø\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « péteux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
péteux is uncommon French at frequency #77,837 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pe.tø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for péteux in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is péteux, spelled P-É-T-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Peureux, pleutre.
- 2Prétentieux et snob, qui se la pète.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how péteux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a une femme malade. Il faut que je la sorte et que je la mette au soleil pour la réchauffer et pour empêcher que cette bande de péteux ne crève de peur.
Chalumot, c’est mon copain, d’accord, mais j’avais repéré, avant, qu’il était à la hauteur, lui. Plus qu’toi, qui t’crois l’caïd parce que t’es d’La Boissière. Sauf qu’avec Moustache t’es drôlement péteux !
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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