picots
\pi.ko\
The verdict
“picots” is uncommon French (frequency #98,355 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,355
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Filets chargés de pierres utilisés pour capturer les poissons plats.
Corpus desk
Index FR-picots · picots · French
picots · rank #98,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,355
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pianistique
Nearest frequency peer: pianistique (-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 « picots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phalangistes
phalangistes
1,649 corpus weight
- photogéniqu…
photogéniques
1,648 corpus weight
- pianistique
pianistique
1,647 corpus weight
- picots
picots
1,646 corpus weight
- Pilatus
Pilatus
1,645 corpus weight
- pillar
pillar
1,644 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « picots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | picots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ko\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « picots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
picots is uncommon French at frequency #98,355 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Filets chargés de pierres utilisés pour capturer les poissons plats.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for picots in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is picots, spelled P-I-C-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Filets chargés de pierres utilisés pour capturer les poissons plats.
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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