piafs
\pjaf\
The verdict
“piafs” is uncommon French (frequency #87,938 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,938
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de piaf.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piafs · piafs · French
piafs · rank #87,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,938
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH photographiant
Nearest frequency peer: photographiant (-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 « piafs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pesées
pesées
12,066 corpus weight
- peti
peti
12,065 corpus weight
- photographi…
photographiant
12,064 corpus weight
- piafs
piafs
12,063 corpus weight
- pilastre
pilastre
12,062 corpus weight
- pimpant
pimpant
12,061 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piafs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piafs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjaf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piafs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piafs is uncommon French at frequency #87,938 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pjaf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de piaf.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for piafs, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 piafs, spelled P-I-A-F-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de piaf.
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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