picking
\pi.kiŋ\
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
- Peterborough
Peterborough
33,786 corpus weight
- Philly
Philly
33,785 corpus weight
- picking
picking
33,783 corpus weight
- Piedmont
Piedmont
33,782 corpus weight
- Pierrelatte
Pierrelatte
33,780 corpus weight
- pigent
pigent
33,779 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « picking » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | picking |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.kiŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « picking » en français
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
- 1Préparation de commandes : opération qui consiste à prélever et rassembler les articles dans la quantité spécifiée par la commande avant expédition de celle-ci.
- 2Technique de jeu utilisée à la guitare acoustique.
- 3Figure où un jongleur vole et rend des objets à un autre en train de jongler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how picking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est de cette maison de Somali Road, au nord de Londres, qu’est partie la vogue européenne de la guitare « picking », […]
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.
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