piccoli
\ˈpik.ko.li\
The verdict
“piccoli” is uncommon French (frequency #77,784 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,784
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de piccolo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piccoli · piccoli · French
piccoli · rank #77,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,784
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH photothèque
Nearest frequency peer: photothèque (-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 « piccoli »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- photocopier
photocopier
22,219 corpus weight
- photothèque
photothèque
22,218 corpus weight
- piccoli
piccoli
22,217 corpus weight
- picotement
picotement
22,216 corpus weight
- Pignerol
Pignerol
22,215 corpus weight
- pimentée
pimentée
22,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piccoli » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piccoli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈpik.ko.li\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piccoli » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piccoli is uncommon French at frequency #77,784 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈpik.ko.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de piccolo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for piccoli in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 piccoli, spelled P-I-C-C-O-L-I.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de piccolo.
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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