pipelette
\pi.plɛt\
The verdict
“pipelette” is uncommon French (frequency #72,617 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,617
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne bavarde voire indiscrète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pipelette · pipelette · French
pipelette · rank #72,617 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,617
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piqueurs
Nearest frequency peer: piqueurs (+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 « pipelette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piaggio
piaggio
27,388 corpus weight
- picolé
picolé
27,387 corpus weight
- pilotées
pilotées
27,386 corpus weight
- pipelette
pipelette
27,384 corpus weight
- piqueurs
piqueurs
27,383 corpus weight
- placo
placo
27,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pipelette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pipelette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.plɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pipelette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pipelette is uncommon French at frequency #72,617 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.plɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pipelette, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pipelette, spelled P-I-P-E-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne bavarde voire indiscrète.
- 2Concierge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pipelette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les enfants, on sait ce que c’est, n’est-ce pas ! On peut le répéter : des braillards, des insolents, des crève-culotte, côté garçons ; des sournoises, des mijaurées, de petites pipelettes, côté filles.
Elle me l’a donné parce que c’était celui d’une de ses tantes préférées, mais ça rime en “ette”, comme pipelette, allumette et claquette.
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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