pieuvres
\pjœvʁ\
The verdict
“pieuvres” is uncommon French (frequency #67,774 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,774
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pieuvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pieuvres · pieuvres · French
pieuvres · rank #67,774 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,774
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piana
Nearest frequency peer: piana (-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 « pieuvres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phébus
phébus
32,229 corpus weight
- piana
piana
32,228 corpus weight
- pieuvres
pieuvres
32,227 corpus weight
- piler
piler
32,226 corpus weight
- pilée
pilée
32,225 corpus weight
- piétinent
piétinent
32,224 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pieuvres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pieuvres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjœvʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pieuvres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pieuvres is uncommon French at frequency #67,774 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pjœvʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pieuvre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pieuvres in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pieuvres, spelled P-I-E-U-V-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pieuvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pieuvres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tantôt avec les lassets, tantôt à l’aide de la bourraque, il faisait une petite récolte de ces belles crevettes roses (quand elles sont cuites) et qu’on appelle le bouquet; muni de l’attirail que j’ai décrit plus haut, il se livrait à une guerre acharnée contre toute la légion des crabes, pouparts, claquarts et craparagdis, sans compter les célèbres pieuv…
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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