pierreries
\pjɛʁ.ʁi\
The verdict
“pierreries” is uncommon French (frequency #84,170 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,170
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pierres précieuses travaillées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pierreries · pierreries · French
pierreries · rank #84,170 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,170
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Picart
Nearest frequency peer: Picart (-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 « pierreries »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Philippa
Philippa
15,834 corpus weight
- photomontag…
photomontages
15,833 corpus weight
- Picart
Picart
15,832 corpus weight
- pierreries
pierreries
15,831 corpus weight
- pigs
pigs
15,830 corpus weight
- pistol
pistol
15,829 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pierreries » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pierreries |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjɛʁ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pierreries » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pierreries is uncommon French at frequency #84,170 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pjɛʁ.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pierres précieuses travaillées.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pierreries in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pierreries, spelled P-I-E-R-R-E-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pierres précieuses travaillées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pierreries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Croyez-vous que j’estime ces pierreries étincelantes plus que ma liberté, ou que mon père y attache plus de prix qu’à la vie et à l’honneur de son enfant ?
[…] : puis il […] se coiffa d’un toquet de velours noir sans plume ni pierreries, s’enveloppa d’un manteau de couleur sombre, […].
This word in other languages
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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