pigeonner
\pi.ʒɔ.ne\
The verdict
“pigeonner” is uncommon French (frequency #95,161 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,161
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saillir en parlant de la poitrine, des seins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pigeonner · pigeonner · French
pigeonner · rank #95,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,161
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pikine
Nearest frequency peer: Pikine (+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 « pigeonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- picturaux
picturaux
4,842 corpus weight
- pigeonner
pigeonner
4,840 corpus weight
- Pikine
Pikine
4,839 corpus weight
- pilaf
pilaf
4,838 corpus weight
- Pinar
Pinar
4,837 corpus weight
- plantains
plantains
4,836 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pigeonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pigeonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pi.ʒɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pigeonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pigeonner is uncommon French at frequency #95,161 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pi.ʒɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pigeonner, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pigeonner, spelled P-I-G-E-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Saillir en parlant de la poitrine, des seins.
- 2Escroquer, abuser de la crédulité d'une personne (le « pigeon »).
- 3S’abuser.
- 4Employer le plâtre, avec la main et la truelle, sans avoir besoin de le jeter ni de le plaquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pigeonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1900, grâce au nouveau corset droit devant élaboré par Inès Gaches-Sarraute, les hanches et fesses sont projetées en arrière, les reins très cambrés, tandis que la poitrine pigeonne.
Le corset fait pigeonner la poitrine.
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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