picking

\pi.kiŋ\

/\pi.kiŋ\/ noun

The verdict

“picking” is uncommon French (frequency #66,218 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,218
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Préparation de commandes : opération qui consiste à prélever et rassembler les articles dans la quantité spécifiée par la commande avant expédition de celle-ci.

Corpus desk

Index FR-picking · picking · French

picking · rank #66,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,218
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH Piedmont

Nearest frequency peer: Piedmont (+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 « picking »

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 « picking » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for picking
PropertyValue
Headwordpicking
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pi.kiŋ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#66,218
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « picking » en français

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Piedmont » (#66,219), « Philly » (#66,216), « Peterborough » (#66,215). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « picking » est au #66,218. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

picking is uncommon French at frequency #66,218 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.kiŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for picking, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is picking, spelled P-I-C-K-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Préparation de commandes : opération qui consiste à prélever et rassembler les articles dans la quantité spécifiée par la commande avant expédition de celle-ci.
  2. 2
    Technique de jeu utilisée à la guitare acoustique.
  3. 3
    Figure où un jongleur vole et rend des objets à un autre en train de jongler.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. C’est de cette maison de Somali Road, au nord de Londres, qu’est partie la vogue européenne de la guitare « picking », […]
  2. On parle de passing pour désigner l’échange d’objets, de picking lorsqu’un jongleur « dérobe » au milieu de leur course les objets que lance son partenaire.

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 "picking"?
"picking" is spelled P-I-C-K-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \pi.kiŋ\.
What does "picking" mean?
As a noun, "picking" means: Préparation de commandes : opération qui consiste à prélever et rassembler les articles dans la quantité spécifiée par la commande avant expédition de celle-ci.
How do you pronounce "picking"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "picking" is \pi.kiŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "picking" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list