pierrette
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,456
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
pierrette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite pierre. N’est plus guère usité que dans l’expression jouer à la pierrette (jeu d’enfants). Pronounced \pjɛ.ʁɛt\. Often confused with permette and Pierrefitte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pierrette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjɛ.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pierrette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pjɛ.ʁɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,456 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pierrette, with forms such as "iperrette", "peirrette", and "pierertte". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "permette", "Pierrefitte", 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 pierrette, spelled P-I-E-R-R-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite pierre. N’est plus guère usité que dans l’expression jouer à la pierrette (jeu d’enfants).
- 2Nom vulgaire de la femelle du moineau (genre Passer), plus spécialement du moineau domestique ou moineau franc (Passer domesticus Linnaeus, 1758).
- 3Épouse du pierrot (personnage de carnaval).
- 4Sorte de camisole blanche que les femmes portaient en négligé.
- 5Noyau de fruit.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iperrette,peirrette,pierertte,pierette,pierrete,pierretet,pierrtete,pirerette,ppierrette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pierrette
Misspelling Variants of "pierrette"
Frequency rank: #39,456 in French
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