piñata
\pi.ɲa.ta\
The verdict
“piñata” is uncommon French (frequency #96,247 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,247
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu consistant à taper avec un bâton sur une figurine géante de papier mâché garnie de bonbons et de petits cadeaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pinata · piñata · French
piñata · rank #96,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,247
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pizzi
Nearest frequency peer: pizzi (-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 « piñata »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pisseuse
pisseuse
3,757 corpus weight
- pitts
pitts
3,756 corpus weight
- pizzi
pizzi
3,755 corpus weight
- piñata
piñata
3,754 corpus weight
- plaignons
plaignons
3,753 corpus weight
- plaisamment
plaisamment
3,752 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piñata » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piñata |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ɲa.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piñata » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piñata is uncommon French at frequency #96,247 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ɲa.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for piñata, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is piñata, spelled P-I-Ñ-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Jeu consistant à taper avec un bâton sur une figurine géante de papier mâché garnie de bonbons et de petits cadeaux.
- 2Nom de la figurine en papier mâché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piñata appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La piñata est le jeu traditionnel de tout anniversaire digne de ce nom pour les petits Mexicains.
Il existe des piñatas en forme d’étoiles, de boules ou même de personnages de dessins animés.
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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