piette
\pjɛt\
The verdict
“piette” is uncommon French (frequency #66,993 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,993
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Harle piette, petit harle au plumage noir et blanc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piette · piette · French
piette · rank #66,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,993
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH phytosanitaire
Nearest frequency peer: phytosanitaire (-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 « piette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phones
phones
33,010 corpus weight
- phytosanita…
phytosanitaire
33,009 corpus weight
- piette
piette
33,008 corpus weight
- pinter
pinter
33,007 corpus weight
- pistage
pistage
33,006 corpus weight
- pivert
pivert
33,004 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piette is uncommon French at frequency #66,993 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pjɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Harle piette, petit harle au plumage noir et blanc.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for piette in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is piette, spelled P-I-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Harle piette, petit harle au plumage noir et blanc.
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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