pickle
\pi.kœl\
The verdict
“pickle” is uncommon French (frequency #97,277 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,277
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Condiment d’origine anglaise à base de petits légumes, fruits et graines aromatiques conservés dans du vinaigre aromatisé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pickle · pickle · French
pickle · rank #97,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,277
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pingre
Nearest frequency peer: pingre (+3 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 « pickle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- personelle
personelle
2,730 corpus weight
- perçait
perçait
2,729 corpus weight
- Petitot
Petitot
2,728 corpus weight
- pickle
pickle
2,724 corpus weight
- pingre
pingre
2,721 corpus weight
- pisans
pisans
2,718 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pickle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pickle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.kœl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pickle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pickle is uncommon French at frequency #97,277 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.kœl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Condiment d’origine anglaise à base de petits légumes, fruits et graines aromatiques conservés dans du vinaigre aromatisé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pickle, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pickle, spelled P-I-C-K-L-E.
Definition
- 1Condiment d’origine anglaise à base de petits légumes, fruits et graines aromatiques conservés dans du vinaigre aromatisé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pickle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un jour, voyant des cornichons sur la table, je me jette dessus pour relever la fadeur du plat que je mastiquais sans conviction. Hélas ! la fadeur augmenta. C’étaient bien des cornichons, mais des sweet pickles (cornichons sucrés).
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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