picot
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,671
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
picot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite pointe qui demeure sur le bois qu’on n’a pas coupé net. Pronounced \pi.ko\. Often confused with pot and pit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | picot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ko\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for picot is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.ko\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,671 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for picot, with forms such as "ipcot", "pciot", and "piccot". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pot", "pit", "pio", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is picot, spelled P-I-C-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite pointe qui demeure sur le bois qu’on n’a pas coupé net.
- 2Bourgeon de gourmand situé à la surface d’un tronc ; trace laissée dans la grume par ce bourgeon.
- 3Petite engrêlure qui se trouve à l’un des bords des dentelles et des passements de fil, d’or, de soie, etc.
- 4Pointe métallique posée sur un vêtement ou intégrée à un bijou.
- 5Marteau pointu dont se servaient les carriers.
- 6Voleur de vin dans les barriques des entrepôts.
- 7Point ou marque, généralement de forme arrondie, sur le bois, le tissu, un fruit ou un animal.
- 8Nom vernaculaire du sigan (Siganus), poisson du sous-ordre des Acanthuroidei.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipcot,pciot,piccot,picott,picto,pioct,ppicot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for picot
Misspelling Variants of "picot"
Frequency rank: #34,671 in French
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Nearby French words
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