pinacle
French, noun/pi.nakl/
pinacle is spelled P-I-N-A-C-L-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 59,881st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pinacle is a French masculine noun meaning “pinnacle, top” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie la plus élevée d’un édifice”.
What does pinacle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepinnacle, top
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie la plus élevée d’un édifice. 2. Clocheton élancé de forme conique ou pyramidale qui sert de couronnement à un contrefort, ou qui est érigé aux extrémités d'un fronton ou d'un gâble, dans les édifices gothiques ou de style gothique. 3. Position la plus élevée, la plus enviable ou la plus estimée, s’opposant au pilori.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pinacle
- pinacles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pinacle?
- /pi.nakl/
- \pi.nakl\
- [pi.nakl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pinacle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pinacle in French?
pinacle appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).