picpus
\pik.pys\
The verdict
“picpus” is uncommon French (frequency #86,019 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,019
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pénitent du tiers-ordre de saint François, établis à Paris, dans le village de Picpus, en 1601.
Corpus desk
Index FR-picpus · picpus · French
picpus · rank #86,019 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,019
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH photograph
Nearest frequency peer: photograph (-2 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 « picpus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- philippiens
philippiens
13,987 corpus weight
- phosphorique
phosphorique
13,985 corpus weight
- photograph
photograph
13,984 corpus weight
- picpus
picpus
13,982 corpus weight
- plafonnées
plafonnées
13,979 corpus weight
- planifiait
planifiait
13,978 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « picpus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | picpus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pik.pys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « picpus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
picpus is uncommon French at frequency #86,019 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pik.pys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pénitent du tiers-ordre de saint François, établis à Paris, dans le village de Picpus, en 1601.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for picpus, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is picpus, spelled P-I-C-P-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pénitent du tiers-ordre de saint François, établis à Paris, dans le village de Picpus, en 1601.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how picpus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus tard, afin de terminer un différend qui s'était élevé entre les minimes et les picpus, à raison du costume, le pape Paul V, en confirmant sur tout le reste les prescriptions du chapitre de Franconville, enjoignit aux picpus de substituer une ceinture de corde ou de crin à celle de cuir qu'ils avaient portée jusqu'à ce moment.
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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