pipette
\pi.pɛt\
The verdict
“pipette” is uncommon French (frequency #55,507 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,507
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit tube servant à prélever une petite quantité de liquide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pipette · pipette · French
pipette · rank #55,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,507
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pika
Nearest frequency peer: pika (-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 « pipette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- photocopieu…
photocopieuse
44,497 corpus weight
- pigeonnier
pigeonnier
44,496 corpus weight
- pika
pika
44,495 corpus weight
- pipette
pipette
44,494 corpus weight
- pissenlit
pissenlit
44,493 corpus weight
- plantait
plantait
44,492 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pipette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pipette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.pɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pipette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pipette is uncommon French at frequency #55,507 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.pɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
pipette doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pipette, spelled P-I-P-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit tube servant à prélever une petite quantité de liquide.
- 2Petite pipe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pipette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est commode de se servir d'une pipette jaugeuse pour le mesurage rapide des 90ᶜᵐ³ d'eau.
Son chapeau de castor, rabattu devant ses yeux, le séparait du paysage ; il fumait une pipette de genièvre et abandonnait ses pensées à leur mouvement naturel.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).