Piémont
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,106
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
Piémont is aFrenchname. It means: Région du nord-ouest de l’Italie. Pronounced \pje.mɔ̃\. Often confused with piment and Piéton.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Piémont |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \pje.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Piémont is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pje.mɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,106 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Piémont, with forms such as "ipémont", "piemont", and "piméont". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "piment", "Piéton", "piétons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Piémont, spelled P-I-É-M-O-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Région du nord-ouest de l’Italie.
- 2L'aire des dialectes lombards a pour cœur l'ancien duché de Milan, fondé au XIVᵉ siècle. Elle inclut, à l'est, Bergame et Brescia (vénitiennes du XVᵉ au XVIIIᵉ siècle), au nord, le Tessin (conquis par les Suisses au début du XVIᵉ siècle), à l'ouest, Novare (rattachée au Piémont au XVIIIᵉ siècle). — (Jean Sellier, Histoire des langues et des peuples qui les parlent, 2020, La Découverte, page 338)
- 3La chute d’une cabine de téléphérique a fait 14 morts et un blessé grave dimanche à Stresa, une station balnéaire du Piémont sur les rives du lac Majeur, dans le nord de l’Italie. — (AFP, Quatorze morts dans la chute d'un téléphérique en Italie, Le Journal de Montréal, 23 mai 2021)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipémont,piemont,piméont,piémmont,piémnot,piémonnt,piémontt,piémotn,piéomnt,ppiémont,péimont
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Piémont"
Frequency rank: #19,106 in French
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