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piqueté

French, adjective\pik.te\

piqueté is spelled P-I-Q-U-E-T-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piqueté is a French adjective meaning “spotted or dotted (with)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of piqueter. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est parsemé de petites taches ou de points semblables à des piqûres”.

What does piqueté mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    spotted or dotted (with)

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of piqueter

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui est parsemé de petites taches ou de points semblables à des piqûres.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of piqueté

  • piquetée feminine
  • piquetés masculine plural
  • piquetées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce piqueté?

  • \pik.te\
  • \pi.kə.te\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is piqueté in French?

piqueté appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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