pickpockets
\pik.pɔ.kɛt\
The verdict
“pickpockets” is uncommon French (frequency #65,409 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,409
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pickpocket.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pickpockets · pickpockets · French
pickpockets · rank #65,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,409
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH photomaton
Nearest frequency peer: photomaton (-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 « pickpockets »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phonographe
phonographe
34,595 corpus weight
- phonologique
phonologique
34,594 corpus weight
- photomaton
photomaton
34,593 corpus weight
- pickpockets
pickpockets
34,592 corpus weight
- Pierron
Pierron
34,591 corpus weight
- pill
pill
34,590 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pickpockets » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pickpockets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pik.pɔ.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pickpockets » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pickpockets is uncommon French at frequency #65,409 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pik.pɔ.kɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pickpocket.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pickpockets in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 pickpockets, spelled P-I-C-K-P-O-C-K-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pickpocket.
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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