piel
\pjel\
The verdict
“piel” is uncommon French (frequency #79,612 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,612
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piel · piel · French
piel · rank #79,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,612
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Phobos
Nearest frequency peer: Phobos (-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 « piel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Perthes
Perthes
20,393 corpus weight
- pharmacovig…
pharmacovigilance
20,391 corpus weight
- Phobos
Phobos
20,390 corpus weight
- piel
piel
20,389 corpus weight
- pilotant
pilotant
20,388 corpus weight
- pilotent
pilotent
20,387 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjel\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piel is uncommon French at frequency #79,612 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pjel\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Peau.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for piel in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 piel, spelled P-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Peau.
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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