pignouf
\pi.ɲuf\
The verdict
“pignouf” is uncommon French (frequency #88,993 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,993
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme grossier, mal élevé, butor, malotru, rustre (équivalent féminin très rare : pignoufe).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pignouf · pignouf · French
pignouf · rank #88,993 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,993
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pillon
Nearest frequency peer: Pillon (+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 « pignouf »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phonographi…
phonographique
11,012 corpus weight
- pignouf
pignouf
11,008 corpus weight
- Pillon
Pillon
11,007 corpus weight
- pisco
pisco
11,005 corpus weight
- pison
pison
11,004 corpus weight
- piétinée
piétinée
11,003 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pignouf » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pignouf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ɲuf\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,993 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pignouf » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pignouf is uncommon French at frequency #88,993 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ɲuf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for pignouf in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pignouf, spelled P-I-G-N-O-U-F.
Definition
- 1Homme grossier, mal élevé, butor, malotru, rustre (équivalent féminin très rare : pignoufe).
- 2Homme, inconnu. → voir type, clampin, mec, gonze etc.
- 3Apprenti cordonnier.
- 4Fruit imaginaire qui constitue l’alimentation principale du flagada, animal lui aussi imaginaire.
- 5Masturbation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pignouf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n'était guère la peine d'employer tant d'art à laisser tout dans le vague, pour qu'un pignouf vienne démolir mon rêve par sa précision inepte.
Moi pas pignouf, moi payer du champagne.
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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