piastre
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#62,523
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
piastre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce d’argent frappée en Turquie par la république de Venise au XVIᵉ siècle à travers ses comptoirs du Levant, et adoptée par l’empire ottoman. Pronounced \pjastʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piastre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjastʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for piastre is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pjastʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #62,523 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for piastre in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is piastre, spelled P-I-A-S-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce d’argent frappée en Turquie par la république de Venise au XVIᵉ siècle à travers ses comptoirs du Levant, et adoptée par l’empire ottoman.
- 2Monnaie d’argent frappée au Mexique et en Bolivie, dans les pays de l’empire ottoman, etc.
- 3Unité monétaire d’Indochine, dont le cours était indexé sur le franc français. → voir piastre indochinoise
- 4Dollar américain ou canadien (en usage officiel).
- 5Dollar.
- 6Argent.
- 7Monnaie valant dix livres tournois en cours au début du 19è siècle à l'île Bourbon et à l'île de France sous le nom de piastre Decaen.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #62,523 in French
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