pigouille
\pi.ɡuj\
The verdict
“pigouille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de perche que le maraîchin enfonce dans la vase pour propulser son embarcation, la plate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pigouille · pigouille · French
pigouille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pigouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ɡuj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pigouille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pigouille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ɡuj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pigouille, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pigouille, spelled P-I-G-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de perche que le maraîchin enfonce dans la vase pour propulser son embarcation, la plate.
- 2(Île de Ré) Sorte de harpon pour la pèche à pied.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pigouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Attention, si tu enfonces mal la pigouille dans la vase, elle peut se coincer et rester bloquée !
Panier en osier dit « gourbeuille », filet à deux manches, sabre pour soulever délicatement les pierres et explorer, et « pigouille » à utiliser comme un harpon.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.