pissant
\pi.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“pissant” is uncommon French (frequency #76,898 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,898
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Drôle ; amusant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pissant · pissant · French
pissant · rank #76,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,898
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pintades
Nearest frequency peer: pintades (-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 « pissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pindare
Pindare
23,106 corpus weight
- pinsons
pinsons
23,105 corpus weight
- pintades
pintades
23,104 corpus weight
- pissant
pissant
23,103 corpus weight
- plafonnés
plafonnés
23,102 corpus weight
- plagiats
plagiats
23,101 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pi.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pissant is uncommon French at frequency #76,898 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pi.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Drôle ; amusant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pissant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pissant, spelled P-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Drôle ; amusant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Comment est Sandrine ? demanda Anne. – Plutôt jolie, plutôt nunuche, répondit Laura. Elle a peur de nous ; c’est assez pissant.
M. Cornellier conviendra que Rabelais est l’un des plus grands écrivains de langue française qui soient, celui dont les livres brillent toujours par le style et la verve et feraient pâlir d’envie (ou rougir de honte) nombre de nos auteurs québécois qui gagneraient à fréquenter l’œuvre réjouissante, puissante et pissante de ce grand esprit qui s’entendait…
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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