pigent
\piʒ\
The verdict
“pigent” is uncommon French (frequency #66,222 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,222
- 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 piger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pigent · pigent · French
pigent · rank #66,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,222
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pierrelatte
Nearest frequency peer: Pierrelatte (-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 « pigent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- picking
picking
33,783 corpus weight
- Piedmont
Piedmont
33,782 corpus weight
- Pierrelatte
Pierrelatte
33,780 corpus weight
- pigent
pigent
33,779 corpus weight
- piquantes
piquantes
33,777 corpus weight
- pixies
pixies
33,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pigent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pigent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \piʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pigent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pigent is uncommon French at frequency #66,222 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \piʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for pigent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 pigent, spelled P-I-G-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de piger.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de piger.
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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