piqueurs
\pi.kœʁ\
The verdict
“piqueurs” is uncommon French (frequency #72,618 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,618
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de piqueur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piqueurs · piqueurs · French
piqueurs · rank #72,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,618
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pipelette
Nearest frequency peer: pipelette (-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 « piqueurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piaggio
piaggio
27,388 corpus weight
- picolé
picolé
27,387 corpus weight
- pilotées
pilotées
27,386 corpus weight
- pipelette
pipelette
27,384 corpus weight
- piqueurs
piqueurs
27,383 corpus weight
- placo
placo
27,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piqueurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piqueurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pi.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piqueurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piqueurs is uncommon French at frequency #72,618 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pi.kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de piqueur.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for piqueurs, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is piqueurs, spelled P-I-Q-U-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de piqueur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how piqueurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les moustiques sont des insectes piqueurs.
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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