pez
\ˈpeː(s)\
The verdict
“pez” is uncommon French (frequency #74,274 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,274
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de bez par durcissement (b → p).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pez · pez · French
pez · rank #74,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,274
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perchées
Nearest frequency peer: perchées (-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 « pez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pencherais
pencherais
25,730 corpus weight
- Pepy
Pepy
25,729 corpus weight
- perchées
perchées
25,728 corpus weight
- pez
pez
25,727 corpus weight
- physiothéra…
physiothérapeute
25,725 corpus weight
- piatti
piatti
25,724 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpeː(s)\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #74,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pez is uncommon French at frequency #74,274 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpeː(s)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de bez par durcissement (b → p).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pez, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pez, spelled P-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de bez par durcissement (b → p).
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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