pipit
\pi.pit\
The verdict
“pipit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de petits oiseaux passereaux élancés au bec pointu et à longue queue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pipit · pipit · French
pipit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pipit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.pit\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pipit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pipit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.pit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de petits oiseaux passereaux élancés au bec pointu et à longue queue.".
pipit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pipit, spelled P-I-P-I-T.
Definition
- 1Genre de petits oiseaux passereaux élancés au bec pointu et à longue queue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pipit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pipit des arbres (Anthus trivialis) est une des sept espèces de pipits que l’on peut observer en France.
Il existe plusieurs espèces de pipits en France et en Europe.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.