pinson
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,517
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pinson is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de petit oiseau passereau granivore, au bec massif conique, et chanteur dont le chant est agréable. Pronounced \pɛ̃.sɔ̃\. Often confused with pion and piton.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pinson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pinson is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ̃.sɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #47,517 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce de petit oiseau passereau granivore, au bec massif conique, et chanteur dont le chant est agréable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pinson, with forms such as "ipnson", "pinnson", and "pinosn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pion", "piton", "pinto", 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 pinson, spelled P-I-N-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit oiseau passereau granivore, au bec massif conique, et chanteur dont le chant est agréable.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipnson,pinnson,pinosn,pinsno,pinsonn,pinsson,pisnon,pnison,ppinson
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pinson
Misspelling Variants of "pinson"
Frequency rank: #47,517 in French
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