pikant
\piˈkant\
The verdict
“pikant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épicé, relevé, piquant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pikant · pikant · French
pikant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | pikant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \piˈkant\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pikant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pikant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \piˈkant\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
pikant has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct French form is pikant, spelled P-I-K-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Épicé, relevé, piquant.
- 2Charmant, intéressant, pétillant, qui pique au vif l’intérêt.
- 3Croustillant, voire grivois, osé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pikant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rinder-Curry ist eine pikante Speise aus Fernost.
Am einfachsten lässt sich Linsencurry mit einer fertigen Currypaste zubereiten, die man im Glas kauft und dann mit Gemüsebrühe oder Kokosmilch aufgießt. Pikanter und herzerwärmender schmeckt es, wenn man die Gewürze für das Curry frisch zubereitet.
Antonyms
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.