piquer un roupillon
\pi.ke œ̃ ʁu.pi.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“piquer un roupillon” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Faire un somme, une sieste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piquer un roupillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pi.ke œ̃ ʁu.pi.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “piquer un roupillon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for piquer un roupillon is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.ke œ̃ ʁu.pi.jɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Faire un somme, une sieste.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for piquer un roupillon in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is piquer un roupillon, spelled P-I-Q-U-E-R- -U-N- -R-O-U-P-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Faire un somme, une sieste.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “piquer un roupillon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-I-Q-U-E-R- -U-N- -R-O-U-P-I-L-L-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pi.ke œ̃ ʁu.pi.jɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.