pirogues
\pi.ʁɔɡ\
The verdict
“pirogues” is uncommon French (frequency #51,044 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,044
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pirogue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pirogues · pirogues · French
pirogues · rank #51,044 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,044
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pies
Nearest frequency peer: pies (-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 « pirogues »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- physio
physio
48,960 corpus weight
- Pierson
Pierson
48,959 corpus weight
- pies
pies
48,958 corpus weight
- pirogues
pirogues
48,957 corpus weight
- pisciculture
pisciculture
48,956 corpus weight
- più
più
48,955 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pirogues » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pirogues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ʁɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pirogues » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pirogues is uncommon French at frequency #51,044 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ʁɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pirogue.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pirogues, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pirogues, spelled P-I-R-O-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pirogue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pirogues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il entretient, dans une blancheur éblouissante, les bâtiments et leurs toits; il coaltare les pirogues, soigne avec amour les verts et les blancs de mon escalère de voyage, etc., etc. Il a un cajibi pour lui seul, où il couche et où il remise pinceaux et ingrédients.
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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