pisse-vinaigre
\pis.vi.nɛɡʁ\
The verdict
“pisse-vinaigre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne morose, revêche, sans humour, esprit chagrin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pisse-vinaigre · pisse-vinaigre · French
pisse-vinaigre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pisse-vinaigre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pis.vi.nɛɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pisse-vinaigre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pis.vi.nɛɡʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
pisse-vinaigre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pisse-vinaigre, spelled P-I-S-S-E---V-I-N-A-I-G-R-E.
Definition
- 1Personne morose, revêche, sans humour, esprit chagrin.
- 2Personne avare.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pisse-vinaigre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y eut un dîner à mourir d’ennui tant ces gens firent de salamalecs ; ils avaient avec eux leur fils, un muscadin, un pisse-vinaigre en perruque.
Ou alors une fête du rire, jour où seraient bannis des places et des rues les grincheux, les pisse-vinaigre, les pisse-froid , les renfrognés, les chagrins, les rabat-joie. Ça ferait de la place aux autres pour rire à gorge et bras déployés.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.