pied de page
\pje də paʒ\
The verdict
“pied de page” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément textuel ou graphique placé au bas des pages d’un document, logo, numéro de page, nom et coordonnées de l’émetteur du document.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pied-de-page · pied de page · French
pied de page · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pied de page |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pje də paʒ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pied de page » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pied de page is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pje də paʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Élément textuel ou graphique placé au bas des pages d’un document, logo, numéro de page, nom et coordonnées de l’émetteur du document.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pied de page, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pied de page, spelled P-I-E-D- -D-E- -P-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Élément textuel ou graphique placé au bas des pages d’un document, logo, numéro de page, nom et coordonnées de l’émetteur du document.
Synonyms
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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.