pied de page
\pje də paʒ\
The verdict
“pied de page” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “pied de page” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pied de page is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pje də paʒ\. 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: "Élément textuel ou graphique placé au bas des pages d’un document, logo, numéro de page, nom et coordonnées de l’émetteur du document.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pied de page 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 pied de page, spelled P-I-E-D- -D-E- -P-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-I-E-D- -D-E- -P-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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