pirouettes
\pi.ʁwɛt\
The verdict
“pirouettes” is uncommon French (frequency #50,418 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,418
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pirouette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pirouettes · pirouettes · French
pirouettes · rank #50,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,418
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pincé
Nearest frequency peer: pincé (-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 « pirouettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- photon
photon
49,586 corpus weight
- pil
pil
49,585 corpus weight
- pincé
pincé
49,584 corpus weight
- pirouettes
pirouettes
49,583 corpus weight
- pita
pita
49,581 corpus weight
- planta
planta
49,580 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pirouettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pirouettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ʁwɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pirouettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pirouettes is uncommon French at frequency #50,418 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ʁwɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pirouette.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pirouettes in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pirouettes, spelled P-I-R-O-U-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pirouette.
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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