pioche
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,236
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
pioche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Outil composé d'un fer emmanché, à une pointe d'un côté et un tranchant de l'autre, ou, à deux pointes. Pronounced \pjɔʃ\. Often confused with poche and pitch.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pioche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pioche is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pjɔʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,236 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pioche, with forms such as "ipoche", "picohe", and "piocche". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "poche", "pitch", "proche", 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 pioche, spelled P-I-O-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Outil composé d'un fer emmanché, à une pointe d'un côté et un tranchant de l'autre, ou, à deux pointes.
- 2Outil servant à l’excavation, au creusement et au tranchage.
- 3Marteau à deux fers pointus.
- 4Réserve d’éléments dans laquelle on se sert sans façon.
- 5Tas de cartes, ensemble de jetons, tickets ou pièces dans lequel on va tirer au hasard.
- 6Choix heureux ou malheureux.
- 7Meuble représentant l’outil du même nom dans les armoiries. Elle est généralement représentée en pal. Son fer est pointu d’un côté et plat de l’autre et courbé avec un manche long et centré par rapport au fer. Il est vers le chef, pointe à dextre. Si son manche est d'un émail particulier, on la dit emmanchée. À rapprocher de pic de mineur, piolet et pointerolle de mineur.
- 8Travail pénible, assidu et long. → voir se mettre à la pioche
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipoche,picohe,piocche,pioceh,piochhe,piohce,poiche,ppioche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pioche
Misspelling Variants of "pioche"
Frequency rank: #20,236 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "pioche"?
What does "pioche" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "pioche"?
How do you pronounce "pioche"?
What language does "pioche" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index: