picotement
\pi.kɔt.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“picotement” is uncommon French (frequency #77,785 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,785
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Impression incommode et un peu douloureuse de piqûres légères à la surface de la peau ou dans la profondeur des tissus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-picotement · picotement · French
picotement · rank #77,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,785
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piccoli
Nearest frequency peer: piccoli (-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 « picotement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- photocopier
photocopier
22,219 corpus weight
- photothèque
photothèque
22,218 corpus weight
- piccoli
piccoli
22,217 corpus weight
- picotement
picotement
22,216 corpus weight
- Pignerol
Pignerol
22,215 corpus weight
- pimentée
pimentée
22,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « picotement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | picotement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.kɔt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « picotement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
picotement is uncommon French at frequency #77,785 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.kɔt.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for picotement in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 picotement, spelled P-I-C-O-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Impression incommode et un peu douloureuse de piqûres légères à la surface de la peau ou dans la profondeur des tissus.
- 2Gêne ou malaise ressenti du fait d’une mauvaise ambiance, de regards insistants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how picotement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sentir des picotements par toute la peau, par tout le corps.
Éprouver des picotements dans la gorge.
This word in other languages
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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