Piccard

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The verdict

“Piccard” is uncommon French (frequency #70,107 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,107
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-piccard · Piccard · French

Piccard · rank #70,107 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,107
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH photonique

Nearest frequency peer: photonique (-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 « Piccard »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Piccard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Piccard
PropertyValue
HeadwordPiccard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#70,107
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Piccard » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Piccardtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « photonique » (#70,106), « pileux » (#70,108), « phocéen » (#70,105). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Piccard » est au #70,107. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Piccard is uncommon French at frequency #70,107 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Zero misspellings are on record for Piccard in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Piccard, spelled P-I-C-C-A-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Piccard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 'Au programme, l’aventurier Bertrand Piccard, l’hydrologue Emma Haziza ou encore le publicitaire Maurice Lévy… — (journal 20 minutes, édition Paris-IDF, 7 février 2024, page 12 (accent ajouté à Levy))

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Piccard"?
"Piccard" is spelled P-I-C-C-A-R-D.
What does "Piccard" mean?
As a proper noun, "Piccard" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Piccard" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Piccard", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

phocéen#70,105pesants#70,101playoff#70,113peinait#70,094

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list