pisciculture
\pi.si.kyl.tyʁ\
The verdict
“pisciculture” is uncommon French (frequency #51,045 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,045
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art de faire éclore artificiellement les poissons, de les multiplier, de les élever.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pisciculture · pisciculture · French
pisciculture · rank #51,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,045
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pirogues
Nearest frequency peer: pirogues (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pisciculture”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- 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
- plaisaient
plaisaient
48,954 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pisciculture” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pisciculture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.si.kyl.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “pisciculture” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
pisciculture is uncommon French at frequency #51,045 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.si.kyl.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Art de faire éclore artificiellement les poissons, de les multiplier, de les élever.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pisciculture in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pisciculture, spelled P-I-S-C-I-C-U-L-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Art de faire éclore artificiellement les poissons, de les multiplier, de les élever.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pisciculture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De plus en plus de poissons vendus dans le commerce sont issus de la pisciculture.
La pisciculture marine est pratiquée par un faible nombre d’entreprises spécialisées, localisées essentiellement dans le Nord et en Méditerranée.
This word in other languages
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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