pied

/\pje\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#756

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

pied is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie du corps humain située à l’extrémité des jambes. Pronounced \pje\. It ranks #756 in French word frequency. Often confused with pré and pis.

Key facts for pied
PropertyValue
Headwordpied
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pje\
Letters4
Frequency rank#756
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pied in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pied is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pje\. Corpus data places it at rank #756 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 30 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pied, with forms such as "iped", "peid", and "pide". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pré", "pis", "PME", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 pied, spelled P-I-E-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie du corps humain située à l’extrémité des jambes.
  2. 2
    Chaussure correspondant à un pied particulier.
  3. 3
    Membre cuisiné d’un animal.
  4. 4
    Trace de la bête qu’on chasse.
  5. 5
    Organe musculeux typique chez les mollusques permettant le déplacement ou de se fixer.
  6. 6
    Partie non séparable d’une chose située à la base.
  7. 7
    Partie d’une construction proche du sol.
  8. 8
    Endroit le plus bas d’un site.
  9. 9
    Partie du tronc ou de la tige en rapport avec le sol.
  10. 10
    Point d’une droite située à l’intersection avec une droite perpendiculaire.
  11. 11
    Élément séparable soutenant une chose et la liant avec le sol.
  12. 12
    Ensemble de la plante.
  13. 13
    Plant de la vigne, cep de vigne.
  14. 14
    Plante dans son ensemble.
  15. 15
    Partie du carpophore entre le sol et le chapeau.
  16. 16
    Partie qui sert à soutenir un objet mobilier.
  17. 17
    Partie d’un objet servant de base.
  18. 18
    Base des tuyaux parlant de la facture d’orgues.
  19. 19
    Unité de mesure de longueur.
  20. 20
    Unité de longueur du système impérial britannique (symbole : ft). → voir foot.
  21. 21
    Ancienne unité de mesure de longueur française (symbole : P).
  22. 22
    Unité rythmique d’un vers ou d’une phrase permettant la scansion, comprenant un nombre déterminé de syllabes.
  23. 23
    Plaisir extrême.
  24. 24
    Inclinaison que l’on donne à des objets pour assurer leur assise, leur stabilité.
  25. 25
    Représentation entière d’un être.
  26. 26
    Ours en pied : Ours debout ; on dit plus fréquemment ours levé.
  27. 27
    Portrait debout.
  28. 28
    Place qu'on commence à occuper dans un endroit.
  29. 29
    Statut ; condition sociale.
  30. 30
    Conformément à ce qui a été établi.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: iped,peid,pide,piedd,ppied

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pied

Misspelling Variants of "pied"

iped4peid4pide4piedd5ppied5
Misspelling Variants of "pied"

Frequency rank: #756 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pied"?
"pied" is spelled P-I-E-D. The IPA pronunciation is \pje\.
What does "pied" mean?
As a noun, "pied" means: Partie du corps humain située à l’extrémité des jambes.
What words are commonly confused with "pied"?
"pied" is commonly confused with "pré", "pis", "PME". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pied"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pied" is \pje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pied" come from?
"pied" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.