piano mécanique
\pja.no me.ka.nik\
The verdict
“piano mécanique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Piano qui joue de la musique automatiquement à partir de cartes perforées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piano-mecanique · piano mécanique · French
piano mécanique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 | piano mécanique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pja.no me.ka.nik\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
piano mécanique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pja.no me.ka.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Piano qui joue de la musique automatiquement à partir de cartes perforées.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for piano mécanique 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is piano mécanique, spelled P-I-A-N-O- -M-É-C-A-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Piano qui joue de la musique automatiquement à partir de cartes perforées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piano mécanique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’'est tous les matins la même musique. Train-train quotidien, piano mécanique.
On sait qu’il apprit un peu de trompette, puis changea d’instrument lorsqu’un piano mécanique fit irruption dans la maison. Fascination d’un gamin de cinq ans devant des touches qui s’enfoncent toutes seules. Le meilleur professeur de piano que l’on puisse imaginer, aussi, puisqu’on entend la musique tout en voyant le clavier qui l’exécute sous ses yeux,…
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.