pipa
\pi.pa\
The verdict
“pipa” is uncommon French (frequency #83,250 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,250
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre d’amphibiens de la famille des Pipidae.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pipa · pipa · French
pipa · rank #83,250 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,250
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piscicole
Nearest frequency peer: piscicole (+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 « pipa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phacochère
phacochère
16,755 corpus weight
- Philipps
Philipps
16,754 corpus weight
- pipa
pipa
16,751 corpus weight
- piscicole
piscicole
16,750 corpus weight
- pissait
pissait
16,749 corpus weight
- placardé
placardé
16,748 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pipa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pipa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.pa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pipa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pipa is uncommon French at frequency #83,250 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre d’amphibiens de la famille des Pipidae.".
pipa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pipa, spelled P-I-P-A.
Definition
- 1Genre d’amphibiens de la famille des Pipidae.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pipa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
PIPA, PIPAL, s. m. (Hist. nat.) P. XV, fig. 3, crapaud d’Amérique. Le mâle ressemble assez par la forme du corps, au bufo ou crapaud de terre de ces pays-ci ; mais la femelle a une conformation très différente ; elle est beaucoup plus grosse que le mâle. La tête du pipa est petite, & la partie antérieure se termine en pointe à-peu-près comme le museau d’u…
Le pipa de Surinam.
This word in other languages
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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