piedra

\ˈpje.ðra\

/\ˈpje.ðra\/ noun

The verdict

“piedra” is uncommon French (frequency #93,092 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,092
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pierre, roche (matière minérale).

Corpus desk

Index FR-piedra · piedra · French

piedra · rank #93,092 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,092
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH photographient

Nearest frequency peer: photographient (-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 « piedra »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piedra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for piedra
PropertyValue
Headwordpiedra
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈpje.ðra\
Letters6
Frequency rank#93,092
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « piedra » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).piedratombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « photographient » (#93,091), « philistin » (#93,089), « pilées » (#93,095). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « piedra » est au #93,092. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

piedra is uncommon French at frequency #93,092 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpje.ðra\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for piedra, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

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. The correct French form is piedra, spelled P-I-E-D-R-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pierre, roche (matière minérale).
  2. 2
    Pierre (bloc rocheux)
  3. 3
    Pierre, caillou.
  4. 4
    Calcul (urinaire).
  5. 5
    Gros grêlon.
  6. 6
    Meule (cylindre plat destiné à moudre).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how piedra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Llovía meses enteros, años enteros. (...) Por las veredas, pisando en una piedra y en otra, contra frío y lluvia, andábamos hacia el colegio.
  2. Macondo era entonces una aldea de veinte casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "piedra"?
"piedra" is spelled P-I-E-D-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈpje.ðra\.
What does "piedra" mean?
As a noun, "piedra" means: Pierre, roche (matière minérale).
How do you pronounce "piedra"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "piedra" is \ˈpje.ðra\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "piedra" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "piedra", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list