Pirot
\pi.ʁɔt\
The verdict
“Pirot” is uncommon French (frequency #99,482 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,482
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ville et municipalité de Serbie, située dans le district de Pirot, dans la région de Ponišavlje, en Serbie centrale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pirot · Pirot · French
Pirot · rank #99,482 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,482
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piquaient
Nearest frequency peer: piquaient (-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 « Pirot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pimente
pimente
522 corpus weight
- piquaient
piquaient
520 corpus weight
- Pirot
Pirot
519 corpus weight
- plaindrais
plaindrais
518 corpus weight
- plaquettaire
plaquettaire
517 corpus weight
- pleurnichard
pleurnichard
516 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pirot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pirot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pi.ʁɔt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pirot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pirot is uncommon French at frequency #99,482 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pi.ʁɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ville et municipalité de Serbie, située dans le district de Pirot, dans la région de Ponišavlje, en Serbie centrale.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Pirot in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Pirot, spelled P-I-R-O-T.
Definition
- 1ville et municipalité de Serbie, située dans le district de Pirot, dans la région de Ponišavlje, en Serbie centrale.
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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