piédestal
French, noun/pje.dɛs.tal/
piédestal is spelled P-I-É-D-E-S-T-A-L (9 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,795th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piédestal is a French masculine noun meaning “pedestal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Support isolé avec base et corniche, qui soutient une statue, une colonne, un candélabre, etc”.
What does piédestal mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepedestal
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Support isolé avec base et corniche, qui soutient une statue, une colonne, un candélabre, etc. 2. Soubassement d’une file de colonnes avec base et corniche. 3. Ce qui sert à hausser quelqu’un, à le faire paraître.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of piédestal
- piédestaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piédestal?
- /pje.dɛs.tal/
- \pje.dɛs.tal\
- [pje.dɛs.tal]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to piédestal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is piédestal in French?
piédestal appears 1.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).