pimprenelle
\pɛ̃.pʁə.nɛl\
The verdict
“pimprenelle” is uncommon French (frequency #96,242 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,242
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de Sanguisorba minor plante dicotylédone, herbacée, vivace, au port érigé, de la famille des Rosacées (Rosaceae) dont les feuilles sont utilisées en salade, elle est originaire d’E...
Corpus desk
Index FR-pimprenelle · pimprenelle · French
pimprenelle · rank #96,242 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,242
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH philosophia
Nearest frequency peer: philosophia (-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 « pimprenelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- petar
petar
3,762 corpus weight
- philosophia
philosophia
3,760 corpus weight
- pimprenelle
pimprenelle
3,759 corpus weight
- piratent
piratent
3,758 corpus weight
- pisseuse
pisseuse
3,757 corpus weight
- pitts
pitts
3,756 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pimprenelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pimprenelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃.pʁə.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #96,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pimprenelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pimprenelle is uncommon French at frequency #96,242 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛ̃.pʁə.nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pimprenelle, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pimprenelle, spelled P-I-M-P-R-E-N-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de Sanguisorba minor plante dicotylédone, herbacée, vivace, au port érigé, de la famille des Rosacées (Rosaceae) dont les feuilles sont utilisées en salade, elle est originaire d’Eurasie à l'exception de l’Asie du sud-est.
- 2Jeune fille un peu niaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pimprenelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils mangèrent de la pimprenelle avec leur pain.
Féministe de longue date, elle est faite d’un bois autrement consistant que les pimprenelles d’aujourd’hui - pas le genre à s’offenser d’une blague salace.
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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