pièce honorable
\pjɛ.s‿ɔ.nɔ.ʁabl\
The verdict
“pièce honorable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pièce assez grande pour pouvoir être chargée de meubles et s'étendant jusqu'aux bords de l'écu. Six motifs reviennent le plus souvent : la fasce (1), le chef (2), la bande (3), la barre (4), le pal...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pièce honorable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjɛ.s‿ɔ.nɔ.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pièce honorable” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pièce honorable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pjɛ.s‿ɔ.nɔ.ʁabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pièce assez grande pour pouvoir être chargée de meubles et s'étendant jusqu'aux bords de l'écu. Six motifs reviennent le plus souvent : la fasce (1), le chef (2), la bande (3), la barre (4), le pal...".
pièce honorable doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 pièce honorable, spelled P-I-È-C-E- -H-O-N-O-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce assez grande pour pouvoir être chargée de meubles et s'étendant jusqu'aux bords de l'écu. Six motifs reviennent le plus souvent : la fasce (1), le chef (2), la bande (3), la barre (4), le pal (5) et le chevron (6).
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.
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Using “pièce honorable”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-I-È-C-E- -H-O-N-O-R-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.