piquetage
\pik.taʒ\
The verdict
“piquetage” is uncommon French (frequency #80,508 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,508
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de piqueter, parsemer de petits points.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piquetage · piquetage · French
piquetage · rank #80,508 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,508
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pippo
Nearest frequency peer: Pippo (-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 « piquetage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pillard
pillard
19,496 corpus weight
- piolet
piolet
19,495 corpus weight
- Pippo
Pippo
19,494 corpus weight
- piquetage
piquetage
19,493 corpus weight
- piratées
piratées
19,492 corpus weight
- piss
piss
19,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piquetage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piquetage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pik.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piquetage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piquetage is uncommon French at frequency #80,508 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pik.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for piquetage in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is piquetage, spelled P-I-Q-U-E-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de piqueter, parsemer de petits points.
- 2Action de couper le blé avec le piquet ou sape.
- 3Action de faire le piquet de grève.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piquetage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout est couvert de poussière de sable ; le vent la soulève en draps flottants, la fait battre dans tous les feuillages, la couche sur de larges pièces d’eau dormante où elle pleut en mille piquetages comme la pluie, cassant brusquement en éclairs la danse d’innombrables petits poissons argentés.
M. d'Havrincourt fait toujours piqueter les céréales versées ; le travail du piquetage est plus parfait, mais bien plus lent et plus coûteux que le fauchage.
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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