piedra
\ˈpje.ðra\
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
- Petrova
Petrova
6,914 corpus weight
- Pharmaprix
Pharmaprix
6,913 corpus weight
- philistin
philistin
6,912 corpus weight
- photographi…
photographient
6,910 corpus weight
- piedra
piedra
6,909 corpus weight
- pilées
pilées
6,906 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piedra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piedra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpje.ðra\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piedra » en français
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
- 1Pierre, roche (matière minérale).
- 2Pierre (bloc rocheux)
- 3Pierre, caillou.
- 4Calcul (urinaire).
- 5Gros grêlon.
- 6Meule (cylindre plat destiné à moudre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piedra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Llovía meses enteros, años enteros. (...) Por las veredas, pisando en una piedra y en otra, contra frío y lluvia, andábamos hacia el colegio.
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.
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