Piolle
\pjlɔ\
The verdict
“Piolle” is uncommon French (frequency #81,439 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,439
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piolle · Piolle · French
Piolle · rank #81,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,439
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pimpante
Nearest frequency peer: pimpante (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Piolle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perrière
perrière
18,568 corpus weight
- Philippon
Philippon
18,566 corpus weight
- pimpante
pimpante
18,563 corpus weight
- Piolle
Piolle
18,562 corpus weight
- Pirandello
Pirandello
18,561 corpus weight
- piratages
piratages
18,560 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Piolle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Piolle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pjlɔ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Piolle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Piolle is uncommon French at frequency #81,439 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pjlɔ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Piolle has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Piolle, spelled P-I-O-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Piolle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les 500 millions d’euros évoqués par Éric Piolle correspondent, en réalité, à un mécanisme bien précis.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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