pintadine
\pɛ̃.ta.din\
The verdict
“pintadine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de mollusques (Meleagrina) dont une des espèces fournit les perles orientales et la nacre de perle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pintadine · pintadine · French
pintadine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pintadine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃.ta.din\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pintadine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛ̃.ta.din\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pintadine, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pintadine, spelled P-I-N-T-A-D-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Genre de mollusques (Meleagrina) dont une des espèces fournit les perles orientales et la nacre de perle.
- 2Genre de pintades.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pintadine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors que le pintadeau est le petit de la pintade , la pintadine n’est pas un oiseau mais une huître perlière dont les taches de la coquille rappellent celles de la pintade, et qui s’appelle aussi méléagrine, du grec meleagris, « pintade ».
Saintil et Zofer ont introduit des pintadines, animaux réputés féroces, de façon à remporter les combats, qui seront de toutes les façons inégaux.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.