pica
\pi.ka\
The verdict
“pica” is uncommon French (frequency #76,893 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,893
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trouble du comportement alimentaire caractérisé par de l’éloignement pour les aliments ordinaires et par le désir de manger des substances non nutritives, telles que craie, terre, charbon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pica · pica · French
pica · rank #76,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,893
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pigmentaire
Nearest frequency peer: pigmentaire (+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 « pica »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pharisien
pharisien
23,111 corpus weight
- physicienne
physicienne
23,110 corpus weight
- pica
pica
23,108 corpus weight
- pigmentaire
pigmentaire
23,107 corpus weight
- Pindare
Pindare
23,106 corpus weight
- pinsons
pinsons
23,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pica » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pica |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ka\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pica » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pica is uncommon French at frequency #76,893 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Trouble du comportement alimentaire caractérisé par de l’éloignement pour les aliments ordinaires et par le désir de manger des substances non nutritives, telles que craie, terre, charbon.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pica in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pica, spelled P-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Trouble du comportement alimentaire caractérisé par de l’éloignement pour les aliments ordinaires et par le désir de manger des substances non nutritives, telles que craie, terre, charbon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pica appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des Esseintes huma l’air ; un pica, une perversion s’empara de lui ; cette immonde tartine lui fit venir l’eau à la bouche.
Mais pourquoi donc ? Parce que les carences en fer accompagnées d'anémie entraînent fréquemment un comportement que l'on appelle le « pica ». Il se traduit, huit fois sur dix par une… pagophagie, ce qui signifie une absorption massive de glaces ; glaçons en cube , et non pas des glaces en cornet.
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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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