piété
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,942
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
piété is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dévotion, attachement aux devoirs et aux pratiques de la religion. Pronounced \pje.te\. Often confused with pit and pire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piété |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pje.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for piété is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pje.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,942 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for piété, with forms such as "ipété", "piete", and "pitéé". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pit", "pire", "pote", 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 piété, spelled P-I-É-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dévotion, attachement aux devoirs et aux pratiques de la religion.
- 2Sentiment humain tels que l’amour pour ses parents, le respect pour les morts, etc.
- 3(1ᵉ interprétation) Nom donné aux gouttes de sang qui s’écoulent du bec du pélican.
- 4(2ᵉ interprétation) Nom donné à l’ensemble de la scène représentant un pélican, son aire, ses trois oisillons et les gouttes de sang qu’il fait jaillir de sa poitrine avec son bec. Selon cette interprétation, c’est le sacrifice du pélican adulte pour nourrir ou ressusciter ses petits qui est un signe de piété, de dévouement. On blasonne alors à la piété de. Si le sang à une couleur particulière, il sera blasonné ensanglanté ou dégoutant.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipété,piete,pitéé,piétté,piéét,ppiété,péité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for piété
Misspelling Variants of "piété"
Frequency rank: #19,942 in French
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