pigeonnier

/\pi.ʒɔ.nje\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#55,505

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pigeonnier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Construction destinée à loger les pigeons domestiques. Pronounced \pi.ʒɔ.nje\.

Key facts for pigeonnier
PropertyValue
Headwordpigeonnier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pi.ʒɔ.nje\
Letters10
Frequency rank#55,505
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pigeonnier in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pigeonnier is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.ʒɔ.nje\. Corpus data places it at rank #55,505 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for pigeonnier in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pigeonnier, spelled P-I-G-E-O-N-N-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Construction destinée à loger les pigeons domestiques.
  2. 2
    Habitation élevée.
  3. 3
    Boîte aux lettres ou un système de boîtes aux lettres collectif souvent utilisé dans un milieu administratif ou scolaire.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #55,505 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pigeonnier"?
"pigeonnier" is spelled P-I-G-E-O-N-N-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pi.ʒɔ.nje\.
What does "pigeonnier" mean?
As a noun, "pigeonnier" means: Construction destinée à loger les pigeons domestiques.
How do you pronounce "pigeonnier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pigeonnier" is \pi.ʒɔ.nje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pigeonnier" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.