piquette du jour
\pi.kɛt dy ʒuʁ\
The verdict
“piquette du jour” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le matin, juste avant le lever du soleil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piquette-du-jour · piquette du jour · French
piquette du jour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | piquette du jour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.kɛt dy ʒuʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piquette du jour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piquette du jour is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.kɛt dy ʒuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Le matin, juste avant le lever du soleil.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for piquette du jour, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 piquette du jour, spelled P-I-Q-U-E-T-T-E- -D-U- -J-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Le matin, juste avant le lever du soleil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piquette du jour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès la fine piquette du jour un aubergiste de Saint-Ambroise vint s’installer aux Moulinettes.
Madeleine entendit bien rentrer François qui vint faire son paquet dans la chambre à côté, et elle l'entendit aussi sortir à la piquette du jour.
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.