pines
\pin\
The verdict
“pines” is uncommon French (frequency #51,659 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,659
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pines · pines · French
pines · rank #51,659 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,659
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pilotés
Nearest frequency peer: pilotés (-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 « pines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Peyre
Peyre
48,345 corpus weight
- pilotés
pilotés
48,343 corpus weight
- pines
pines
48,342 corpus weight
- pinède
pinède
48,341 corpus weight
- playback
playback
48,340 corpus weight
- plongea
plongea
48,339 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pin\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pines is uncommon French at frequency #51,659 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pine.".
pines doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pines, spelled P-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des pines, elle en avait vu, mais jamais dans cet état.
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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