pinot
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,366
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pinot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom donné à diverses espèces de cépages. En ce qui concerne les cépages autorisés en France il y a le pinot meunier, le pinot blanc, le pinot gris et le pinot noir. En tant que nom officiel on trou... Pronounced \pi.no\. Often confused with pot and pit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pinot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.no\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pinot is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.no\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,366 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pinot, with forms such as "ipnot", "pinnot", and "pinott". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pot", "pit", "pio", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pinot, spelled P-I-N-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à diverses espèces de cépages. En ce qui concerne les cépages autorisés en France il y a le pinot meunier, le pinot blanc, le pinot gris et le pinot noir. En tant que nom officiel on trouve en outre : pinot cioutat, pinot noir renevey, pinot arcenan, pinot carmot, pinot contaillod, pinot crepet, pinot violet, pinot d'Ervelon, pinot de Coulanges, pinot maltais, pinot de Saint-Jean, pinot de Trépail, pinot du Valais, pinot teinturier, pinot Geoffroy, pinot longuet, pinot liébault, pinot précoce noir, pinot musqué, pinot tête de nègre, pinot salomon, pinot régina et pinot laurent qui sont toutes des espèces à part entière. Il existe, en outre, une grande quantité de cépages nommés pinot qui sont en fait le synonyme d'une autre espèce : pinot vache (mondeuse noire), pinot saint-Georges, pinot aigret (pinot cioutat mais aussi rufette cépage portugais), pinot blanc précoce (auxerrois), pinot d'Ailly (beau noir), pinot d'Evora (carignan), pinot d'Orléans (beaunoir), etc.
- 2Vin issu de ces cépages.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipnot,pinnot,pinott,pniot,ppinot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pinot
Misspelling Variants of "pinot"
Frequency rank: #19,366 in French
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