pin
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,054
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pin is aFrenchnoun. It 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... Pronounced \pɛ̃\. It ranks #9,054 in French word frequency. Often confused with pu and PS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pin is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,054 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pin in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pin, spelled P-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grand 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.
- 2Nom 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.
- 3Bois de ces arbres.
- 4Meuble 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…
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Frequency rank: #9,054 in French
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