piétinement
\pje.tin.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“piétinement” is uncommon French (frequency #66,998 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,998
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de piétiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pietinement · piétinement · French
piétinement · rank #66,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,998
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pivert
Nearest frequency peer: pivert (-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 « piétinement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pistage
pistage
33,006 corpus weight
- pivert
pivert
33,004 corpus weight
- piétinement
piétinement
33,003 corpus weight
- plaisais
plaisais
33,002 corpus weight
- plaisantais
plaisantais
33,001 corpus weight
- plana
plana
33,000 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piétinement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piétinement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pje.tin.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piétinement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piétinement is uncommon French at frequency #66,998 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pje.tin.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
piétinement has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is piétinement, spelled P-I-É-T-I-N-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de piétiner.
- 2Bruit que fait un piétinement.
- 3Pratique interdite qui consiste à piétiner brutalement un adversaire au sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piétinement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Groison et le maréchal des logis étudièrent avec une sagacité remarquable le terrain autour du piétinement qui indiquait ce qu’en style judiciaire on nomme le théâtre du crime, et ils ne purent découvrir aucun indice.
C’était un grand piétinement de pattes de corbeaux.
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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