pika
\pi.ka\
The verdict
“pika” is uncommon French (frequency #55,506 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,506
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit mammifère à fourrure de la famille des Ochotonidae, vivant dans les montagnes d’Amérique du Nord et en Eurasie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pika · pika · French
pika · rank #55,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,506
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pigeonnier
Nearest frequency peer: pigeonnier (-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 « pika »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phocéenne
phocéenne
44,498 corpus weight
- photocopieu…
photocopieuse
44,497 corpus weight
- pigeonnier
pigeonnier
44,496 corpus weight
- pika
pika
44,495 corpus weight
- pipette
pipette
44,494 corpus weight
- pissenlit
pissenlit
44,493 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pika » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pika |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ka\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pika » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pika is uncommon French at frequency #55,506 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit mammifère à fourrure de la famille des Ochotonidae, vivant dans les montagnes d’Amérique du Nord et en Eurasie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pika, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 pika, spelled P-I-K-A.
Definition
- 1Petit mammifère à fourrure de la famille des Ochotonidae, vivant dans les montagnes d’Amérique du Nord et en Eurasie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pika appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un pika siffleur émergea d’un éboulis et voulut pousser un cri perçant mais, effrayé par je ne sais quoi, replongea dans son terrier pour ne plus se montrer.
Les pikas ont des oreilles et des pattes postérieures réduites, et un cri particulier : un sifflement strident.
Synonyms
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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