pinon
\ˈpi.non\
The verdict
“pinon” is uncommon French (frequency #82,337 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,337
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accusatif singulier de pino.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pinon · pinon · French
pinon · rank #82,337 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,337
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piggy
Nearest frequency peer: piggy (-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 « pinon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- philologiqu…
philologiques
17,667 corpus weight
- Phocas
Phocas
17,666 corpus weight
- piggy
piggy
17,665 corpus weight
- pinon
pinon
17,664 corpus weight
- plague
plague
17,663 corpus weight
- playmate
playmate
17,662 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pinon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pinon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpi.non\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pinon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pinon is uncommon French at frequency #82,337 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpi.non\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Accusatif singulier de pino.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pinon, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pinon, spelled P-I-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Accusatif singulier de pino.
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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