pieds de mouche
The verdict
“pieds de mouche” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Écriture dont les lettres sont très menues et très mal formées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pieds de mouche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pieds de mouche” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pieds de mouche is 15 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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.
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Using “pieds de mouche”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-I-E-D-S- -D-E- -M-O-U-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.