picolé
\pi.kɔ.le\
The verdict
“picolé” is uncommon French (frequency #72,614 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,614
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de picoler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-picole · picolé · French
picolé · rank #72,614 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,614
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piaggio
Nearest frequency peer: piaggio (-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 « picolé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perpétuant
perpétuant
27,392 corpus weight
- piaggio
piaggio
27,388 corpus weight
- picolé
picolé
27,387 corpus weight
- pilotées
pilotées
27,386 corpus weight
- pipelette
pipelette
27,384 corpus weight
- piqueurs
piqueurs
27,383 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « picolé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | picolé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pi.kɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « picolé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
picolé is uncommon French at frequency #72,614 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pi.kɔ.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de picoler.".
picolé has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is picolé, spelled P-I-C-O-L-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de picoler.
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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