pietà
\pje.ta\
The verdict
“pietà” is uncommon French (frequency #70,939 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,939
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représentation de la Vierge Marie en déploration sur le corps supplicié de son fils Jésus descendu de la croix et qu’elle tient sur ses genoux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pieta · pietà · French
pietà · rank #70,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,939
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH phlébite
Nearest frequency peer: phlébite (-2 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 « pietà »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pestiférés
pestiférés
29,066 corpus weight
- phalle
phalle
29,065 corpus weight
- phlébite
phlébite
29,064 corpus weight
- pietà
pietà
29,062 corpus weight
- pilonnage
pilonnage
29,059 corpus weight
- pisé
pisé
29,058 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pietà » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pietà |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pje.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pietà » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pietà is uncommon French at frequency #70,939 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pje.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Représentation de la Vierge Marie en déploration sur le corps supplicié de son fils Jésus descendu de la croix et qu’elle tient sur ses genoux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pietà 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, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pietà, spelled P-I-E-T-À.
Definition
- 1Représentation de la Vierge Marie en déploration sur le corps supplicié de son fils Jésus descendu de la croix et qu’elle tient sur ses genoux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pietà appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, alors que je pensais bien à la pietà sculptée par Michel-Ange pour une chapelle de Saint-Pierre-de-Rome (on se souvient de mes rêveries italiennes), je n'avais jusqu'alors jamais remarqué que je rêvais une pietà qui n'était pas une piéta.
Dans les Pietà champenoises, Marie soutient de la main droite le corps ou un bras de Jésus, tandis qu'elle pose sa main gauche sur son propre cœur, indiquant par où elle souffre.
Synonyms
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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