picotements
\pi.kɔt.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“picotements” is uncommon French (frequency #60,276 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,276
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de picotement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-picotements · picotements · French
picotements · rank #60,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,276
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Phénicie
Nearest frequency peer: Phénicie (-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 « picotements »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Phénicie
Phénicie
39,726 corpus weight
- picotements
picotements
39,725 corpus weight
- pinacle
pinacle
39,724 corpus weight
- pissenlits
pissenlits
39,723 corpus weight
- pitons
pitons
39,722 corpus weight
- plaquées
plaquées
39,721 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « picotements » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | picotements |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.kɔt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #60,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « picotements » en français
Rare enough to double-check
picotements is uncommon French at frequency #60,276 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.kɔt.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de picotement.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for picotements, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 picotements, spelled P-I-C-O-T-E-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de picotement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how picotements appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alterner eau chaude et froide durant la douche post-marathon (ou pour des bains de pieds) est une solution aussi simple qu’efficace pour chasser les toxines, désensibiliser les pieds aux picotements et protéger les articulations.
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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