pieusement
\pjøz.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“pieusement” is uncommon French (frequency #80,504 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,504
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D'une façon pieuse, avec piété.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pieusement · pieusement · French
pieusement · rank #80,504 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,504
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pillard
Nearest frequency peer: pillard (+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 « pieusement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Phoebus
Phoebus
19,500 corpus weight
- pieusement
pieusement
19,497 corpus weight
- pillard
pillard
19,496 corpus weight
- piolet
piolet
19,495 corpus weight
- Pippo
Pippo
19,494 corpus weight
- piquetage
piquetage
19,493 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pieusement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pieusement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pjøz.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pieusement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pieusement is uncommon French at frequency #80,504 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \pjøz.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D'une façon pieuse, avec piété.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pieusement in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pieusement, spelled P-I-E-U-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D'une façon pieuse, avec piété.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pieusement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A leur âge, dans notre pays, les grand’mères se préparent à mourir pieusement et les jeunes filles ne pensent qu'au flirt.
[…] il ne me souvient pas d'avoir pris une direction importante dans ma vie politique sans que, descendant au fond de moi-même, je n'aie pieusement interrogé le grand disparu.
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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