pirouette
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,460
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
pirouette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tour entier qu’on fait de tout le corps, en se tenant sur la pointe d’un seul pied. Pronounced \pi.ʁwɛt\. Often confused with projette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pirouette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ʁwɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pirouette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.ʁwɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,460 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pirouette, with forms such as "iprouette", "pioruette", and "piroeutte". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "projette", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pirouette, spelled P-I-R-O-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tour entier qu’on fait de tout le corps, en se tenant sur la pointe d’un seul pied.
- 2Sorte de volte que fait le cheval sur sa longueur dans une seule et même place.
- 3Dérobade.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iprouette,pioruette,piroeutte,pirouete,pirouetet,piroutete,pirrouette,piruoette,ppirouette,priouette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pirouette
Misspelling Variants of "pirouette"
Frequency rank: #39,460 in French
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