picnic
\pik.nik\
The verdict
“picnic” is uncommon French (frequency #58,164 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,164
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de pique-nique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-picnic · picnic · French
picnic · rank #58,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,164
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Phœnix
Nearest frequency peer: Phœnix (-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 « picnic »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phy
phy
41,840 corpus weight
- phénol
phénol
41,839 corpus weight
- Phœnix
Phœnix
41,838 corpus weight
- picnic
picnic
41,837 corpus weight
- plafonnée
plafonnée
41,836 corpus weight
- plairont
plairont
41,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « picnic » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | picnic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pik.nik\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « picnic » en français
Rare enough to double-check
picnic is uncommon French at frequency #58,164 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pik.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de pique-nique.".
Zero misspellings are on record for picnic in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 picnic, spelled P-I-C-N-I-C.
Definition
- 1Variante de pique-nique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how picnic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Et les picnics du dimanche au Gros-Morne ? — Ils ont vécu, les bons vieux romans qu’orne La Jeune Créole, lente, aux mœurs légères...
C’est l’opinion de Mrs Thornburgh, qui met les picnics et les promenades au service de sa diplomatie, comme il convient dans ce pays pittoresque, où l’on ne peut offrir à ses invités de meilleures distractions.
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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