picrate
\pi.kʁat\
The verdict
“picrate” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom générique des sels que forme l’acide picrique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-picrate · picrate · French
picrate · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | picrate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.kʁat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « picrate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
picrate is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.kʁat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for picrate 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 picrate, spelled P-I-C-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom générique des sels que forme l’acide picrique.
- 2Vin de mauvaise qualité, piquette, pinard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how picrate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Est-ce que le picrate de potasse peut s’enflammer, quand il n’y a pas choc ?
Je me figure que son complice lui avait proposé de faire sauter nuitamment le donjon de Rustéphan... avec du picrate de potasse... vous vous rappelez l’explosion de la place de la Sorbonne, l’année dernière […].
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.