piègent
\pjɛʒ\
The verdict
“piègent” is uncommon French (frequency #76,011 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,011
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de piéger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piegent · piègent · French
piègent · rank #76,011 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,011
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pivotante
Nearest frequency peer: pivotante (-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 « piègent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pistonné
pistonné
23,993 corpus weight
- pitres
pitres
23,992 corpus weight
- pivotante
pivotante
23,991 corpus weight
- piègent
piègent
23,990 corpus weight
- placette
placette
23,988 corpus weight
- planisphère
planisphère
23,987 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piègent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piègent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pjɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piègent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piègent is uncommon French at frequency #76,011 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pjɛʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for piègent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is piègent, spelled P-I-È-G-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de piéger.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de piéger.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).