Piedmont
\pje.mɔ̃\
The verdict
“Piedmont” is uncommon French (frequency #66,219 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,219
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Région du nord-ouest de l'Italie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piedmont · Piedmont · French
Piedmont · rank #66,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,219
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH picking
Nearest frequency peer: picking (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Piedmont »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Peterborough
Peterborough
33,786 corpus weight
- Philly
Philly
33,785 corpus weight
- picking
picking
33,783 corpus weight
- Piedmont
Piedmont
33,782 corpus weight
- Pierrelatte
Pierrelatte
33,780 corpus weight
- pigent
pigent
33,779 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Piedmont » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Piedmont |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pje.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Piedmont » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Piedmont is uncommon French at frequency #66,219 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pje.mɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Piedmont, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Piedmont, spelled P-I-E-D-M-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1Région du nord-ouest de l'Italie.
- 2Région de plateaux de l’Est des États-Unis, entre le massif montagneux des Appalaches et la plaine côtière atlantique.
- 3Municipalité canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC des Pays-d’en-Haut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Piedmont appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la région du Piedmont, en Caroline du Nord, les sols nus sont rapidement recouverts par une variété de plantes annuelles.
De cette manière, tout le nord de la plaine côtière se trouve découpé en presqu’iles, rattachées au Piedmont par des isthmes étroits, comme celui qui sépare le Delaware du Raritan, le Clay-bank Creek de l’Elk River, le Potomac du Rappahannok.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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