pinacothèque
\pi.na.kɔ.tɛk\
The verdict
“pinacothèque” is uncommon French (frequency #78,741 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,741
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Musée de peinture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pinacotheque · pinacothèque · French
pinacothèque · rank #78,741 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,741
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poa
Nearest frequency peer: poa (+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 « pinacothèque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Phalsbourg
Phalsbourg
21,264 corpus weight
- Philippes
Philippes
21,263 corpus weight
- pinacothèque
pinacothèque
21,260 corpus weight
- poa
poa
21,259 corpus weight
- polarise
polarise
21,258 corpus weight
- postmoderni…
postmodernisme
21,257 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pinacothèque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pinacothèque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.na.kɔ.tɛk\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #78,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pinacothèque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pinacothèque is uncommon French at frequency #78,741 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.na.kɔ.tɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pinacothèque in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pinacothèque, spelled P-I-N-A-C-O-T-H-È-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Musée de peinture.
- 2Cabinet de peinture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pinacothèque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y aura toujours des gens pour penser que « ondée » est plus joli que « pluie », qui préféreront « opuscule » à « petit livre », « missive » à « lettre », « expliciter » à « expliquer », « pinacothèque » à « musée », « céphalalgie » à « mal de tête » et trouveront plus distingué d’avoir une protubérance qu’une bosse. »
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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