pieds de mouche
The verdict
“pieds de mouche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écriture dont les lettres sont très menues et très mal formées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pieds-de-mouche · pieds de mouche · French
pieds de mouche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pieds de mouche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pieds de mouche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pieds de mouche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Écriture dont les lettres sont très menues et très mal formées.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pieds de mouche in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pieds de mouche, spelled P-I-E-D-S- -D-E- -M-O-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Écriture dont les lettres sont très menues et très mal formées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pieds de mouche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne fait que des pieds de mouche en écrivant.
Toute son écriture n’est que des pieds de mouche, qu’en pieds de mouche.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.