pinte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,691
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pinte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ancienne unité de mesure qui servait à mesurer le vin et autres liquides, et dont la valeur différait selon les lieux. À Paris elle valait 0,93 litre. Pronounced \pɛ̃t\. Often confused with pit and pire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pinte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pinte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,691 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for pinte, with forms such as "ipnte", "pinet", and "pinnte". 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, "pit", "pire", "pont", 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 pinte, spelled P-I-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ancienne unité de mesure qui servait à mesurer le vin et autres liquides, et dont la valeur différait selon les lieux. À Paris elle valait 0,93 litre.
- 2Unité de mesure de capacité du système impérial britannique correspondant à un quart de gallon.
- 3Verre de bière d’un demi-litre.
- 4Débit de boisson, bistro.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipnte,pinet,pinnte,pintte,pitne,pnite,ppinte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pinte
Misspelling Variants of "pinte"
Frequency rank: #28,691 in French
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