pinacle
\pi.nakl\
The verdict
“pinacle” is uncommon French (frequency #60,277 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,277
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie la plus élevée d’un édifice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pinacle · pinacle · French
pinacle · rank #60,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,277
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH picotements
Nearest frequency peer: picotements (-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 « pinacle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Phénicie
Phénicie
39,726 corpus weight
- picotements
picotements
39,725 corpus weight
- pinacle
pinacle
39,724 corpus weight
- pissenlits
pissenlits
39,723 corpus weight
- pitons
pitons
39,722 corpus weight
- plaquées
plaquées
39,721 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pinacle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pinacle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.nakl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pinacle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pinacle is uncommon French at frequency #60,277 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.nakl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pinacle in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pinacle, spelled P-I-N-A-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Partie la plus élevée d’un édifice.
- 2Clocheton 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.
- 3Position la plus élevée, la plus enviable ou la plus estimée, s’opposant au pilori.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pinacle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pinacle d'un arc-boutant.
De style ogival flamboyant, à ornementation très fouillée, surtout dans la façade et les tours, ses arcs-boutants, ses clochetons, ses pinacles gothiques sont remarquables.
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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