piaculaire
The verdict
“piaculaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à l’expiation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piaculaire · piaculaire · French
piaculaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piaculaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
piaculaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport à l’expiation.".
Zero misspellings are on record for piaculaire in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is piaculaire, spelled P-I-A-C-U-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à l’expiation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piaculaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car le Vésuve allemand n’ayant pas encore dévoré la verte banlieue, la coutume des dîners subsistait toujours, et les plus avisés ne prévoyaient pas les jeûnes et les abstinences piaculaires de l’interminable siège.
L'analyse que menait Durkheim des rites piaculaires liés aux catastrophes atteignant la collectivité n'est pas sans retrouver ici quelque actualité autour de ces rituels de deuil.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.