pièce de monnaie
\pjɛs də mɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“pièce de monnaie” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit objet métallique, le plus souvent en forme de disque, ayant une certaine valeur monétaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pièce de monnaie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjɛs də mɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pièce de monnaie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pièce de monnaie is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pjɛs də mɔ.nɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Petit objet métallique, le plus souvent en forme de disque, ayant une certaine valeur monétaire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pièce de monnaie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pièce de monnaie, spelled P-I-È-C-E- -D-E- -M-O-N-N-A-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit objet métallique, le plus souvent en forme de disque, ayant une certaine valeur monétaire.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-I-È-C-E- -D-E- -M-O-N-N-A-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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