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pickpocket

French, noun/pik.pɔ.kɛt/

pickpocket is spelled P-I-C-K-P-O-C-K-E-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 51,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pickpocket is a French masculine noun meaning “pickpocket” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Voleur ou voleuse à la tire”.

What does pickpocket mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepickpocket

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Voleur ou voleuse à la tire.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of pickpocket

  • pickpockets plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce pickpocket?

  • /pik.pɔ.kɛt/
  • \pik.pɔ.kɛt\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to pickpocket

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is pickpocket in French?

pickpocket appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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