pin

\pɛ̃\

/\pɛ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“pin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,054) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#9,054
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand arbre du genre Pinus, conifères résineux, monoïques, à aiguilles persistantes longues, minces, pointues et groupées en faisceaux par 2, 3 ou 5, aux cônes mâles ressemblant à des chatons et au...

Corpus desk

Index FR-pin · pin · French

pin · rank #9,054 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,054
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH percer

Nearest frequency peer: percer (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « pin »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « pin » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pin vs pu
33% similar
pin vs PS
0% similar
pin vs PQ
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pin
PropertyValue
Headwordpin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛ̃\
Letters3
Frequency rank#9,054
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pin »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).pinse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « percer » (#9,053), « plaie » (#9,055), « platine » (#9,056). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pin » est au #9,054. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for pin is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pɛ̃\. Frequency #9,054 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

No misspelling variants are generated for pin in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pin, spelled P-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grand arbre du genre Pinus, conifères résineux, monoïques, à aiguilles persistantes longues, minces, pointues et groupées en faisceaux par 2, 3 ou 5, aux cônes mâles ressemblant à des chatons et aux cônes femelles d’abord dressés puis se courbant ou bien pendants.
  2. 2
    Nom donné à de nombreux arbres qui ne sont pas du genre Pinus mais qui par certains aspects y ressemblent, par exemple : pin pleureur (Picea abies), pin du Chili (Araucaria araucana.), etc.
  3. 3
    Bois de ces arbres.
  4. 4
    Meuble représentant l’arbre du même nom dans les armoiries. Il se blasonne comme n’importe un arbre. Il se caractérise généralement par un tronc long. Des pommes de pin peuvent être visibles quand il est fruité. À rapprocher de arbre, chêne, if, pommier, sapin…

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À travers les pins blancs qu’il secoue et qu’il ploie, Le vent gronde.
  2. On y plante principalement des pins, des bouleaux, des marsaults, et des aulnes ; quelques-unes de ces essences réussissent assez bien.

Synonyms

pinassepinace

This word in other languages

pine(English)pino(Español)Kiefer(Deutsch)pinho(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pin"?
"pin" is spelled P-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛ̃\.
What does "pin" mean?
As a noun, "pin" means: Grand arbre du genre Pinus, conifères résineux, monoïques, à aiguilles persistantes longues, minces, pointues et groupées en faisceaux par 2, 3 ou 5, aux cônes mâles ressemblant à des chatons et au...
What words are commonly confused with "pin"?
"pin" is commonly confused with "pu", "PS", "PQ". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pin" is \pɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pin" come from?
"pin" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pin", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

taf#9,081was#9,098who#9,100coq#8,980

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list