Pikine
\pi.kin\
The verdict
“Pikine” is uncommon French (frequency #95,162 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,162
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville sénégalaise située dans la région de Dakar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pikine · Pikine · French
Pikine · rank #95,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,162
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pigeonner
Nearest frequency peer: pigeonner (-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 « Pikine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- picturaux
picturaux
4,842 corpus weight
- pigeonner
pigeonner
4,840 corpus weight
- Pikine
Pikine
4,839 corpus weight
- pilaf
pilaf
4,838 corpus weight
- Pinar
Pinar
4,837 corpus weight
- plantains
plantains
4,836 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pikine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pikine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pi.kin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pikine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pikine is uncommon French at frequency #95,162 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pi.kin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville sénégalaise située dans la région de Dakar.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Pikine, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Pikine, spelled P-I-K-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ville sénégalaise située dans la région de Dakar.
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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