piétinent
\pje.tin\
The verdict
“piétinent” is uncommon French (frequency #67,777 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,777
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de piétiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pietinent · piétinent · French
piétinent · rank #67,777 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,777
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pilée
Nearest frequency peer: pilée (-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 « piétinent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pieuvres
pieuvres
32,227 corpus weight
- piler
piler
32,226 corpus weight
- pilée
pilée
32,225 corpus weight
- piétinent
piétinent
32,224 corpus weight
- plagier
plagier
32,223 corpus weight
- plaidoyers
plaidoyers
32,222 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piétinent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piétinent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pje.tin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piétinent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piétinent is uncommon French at frequency #67,777 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pje.tin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for piétinent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is piétinent, spelled P-I-É-T-I-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de piétiner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de piétiner.
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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