piot

Name: piot, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\pjo\

/\pjo\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“piot” is uncommon French (frequency #54,795 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,795
frequency rank, French: 6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit.

Corpus desk

Index FR-piot · piot · French

piot · rank #54,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-RARE #54,795
LEN-MID 4 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,826
PHOTO-FINISH plato

Nearest frequency peer: plato (+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.

Piet

45,209
pilou

45,208
piot

45,206
plato

45,205
pleureuses

45,204
plongeait

45,203

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Key facts for piot
Property	Value
Headword	piot
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\pjo\
Letters	4
Frequency rank	#54,795
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « piot » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.piottombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#54,795

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « plato » (#54,796), « pilou » (#54,793), « pleureuses » (#54,797). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « piot » est au #54,795. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

piot is uncommon French at frequency #54,795 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pjo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit.".

piot has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is piot, spelled P-I-O-T.

Definition

1
Petit.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "piot"?

"piot" is spelled P-I-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pjo\.

What does "piot" mean?

As an adjective, "piot" means: Petit.

How do you pronounce "piot"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "piot" is \pjo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "piot" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "piot", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Piet#54,792 prin#54,805 niée#54,761 rayo#54,835