pieds nus
\pje ny\
The verdict
“pieds nus” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déchaussé, avec les pieds à l’air.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pieds-nus · pieds nus · French
pieds nus · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 nus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pje ny\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pieds nus is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \pje ny\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pieds nus, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pieds nus, spelled P-I-E-D-S- -N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Déchaussé, avec les pieds à l’air.
- 2Déferré des quatre pieds, en parlant d'un cheval de course.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pieds nus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aller, marcher pieds nus
Juste après la course, il enlève ses chaussures à pointes, foule pieds nus la pelouse, s’assoit quelques minutes, encore essoufflé, la tête renversée. Ah ! oui, ces minutes-là, volées au temps après l’obsession du chronomètre, et d’autant plus éternelles qu’elles suivent la chasse au secondes !
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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.