pictogramme

\pik.to.ɡʁam\

/\pik.to.ɡʁam\/ noun

The verdict

“pictogramme” is uncommon French (frequency #61,782 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,782
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dessin schématique désignant le plus clairement possible une direction, une fonction ou une action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pictogramme · pictogramme · French

pictogramme · rank #61,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,782
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH phénicien

Nearest frequency peer: phénicien (-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 « pictogramme »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pictogramme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for pictogramme
PropertyValue
Headwordpictogramme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pik.to.ɡʁam\
Letters11
Frequency rank#61,782
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « pictogramme » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).pictogrammetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « phénicien » (#61,781), « picturales » (#61,783), « photographiées » (#61,780). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pictogramme » est au #61,782. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pictogramme is uncommon French at frequency #61,782 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pik.to.ɡʁam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for pictogramme in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored 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 pictogramme, spelled P-I-C-T-O-G-R-A-M-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dessin schématique désignant le plus clairement possible une direction, une fonction ou une action.
  2. 2
    Idéogramme iconique.
  3. 3
    Symbole évocateur aisément compréhensible évoquant un fait ou un objet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pictogramme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans les temps historiques, la traduction spatiale du développement d’une action conduit du mythogramme au pictogramme et aux diverses formes de signes linéarisés qui sont caractéristiques de l’écriture.
  2. Une histoire sans mots est réellement une histoire sans mots. À partir de pictogrammes totalement inventés, voici, heure par heure, une journée de M. Noir.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pictogramme"?
"pictogramme" is spelled P-I-C-T-O-G-R-A-M-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pik.to.ɡʁam\.
What does "pictogramme" mean?
As a noun, "pictogramme" means: Dessin schématique désignant le plus clairement possible une direction, une fonction ou une action.
How do you pronounce "pictogramme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pictogramme" is \pik.to.ɡʁam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pictogramme" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pictogramme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list