pictogramme
\pik.to.ɡʁam\
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
- phonétiquem…
phonétiquement
38,222 corpus weight
- photographi…
photographiées
38,221 corpus weight
- phénicien
phénicien
38,220 corpus weight
- pictogramme
pictogramme
38,219 corpus weight
- picturales
picturales
38,218 corpus weight
- pigistes
pigistes
38,217 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pictogramme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pictogramme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pik.to.ɡʁam\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #61,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pictogramme » en français
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
- 1Dessin schématique désignant le plus clairement possible une direction, une fonction ou une action.
- 2Idéogramme iconique.
- 3Symbole évocateur aisément compréhensible évoquant un fait ou un objet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pictogramme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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