pistil
\pis.til\
The verdict
“pistil” is uncommon French (frequency #80,511 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,511
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - L’ensemble des organes femelles d’une fleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pistil · pistil · French
pistil · rank #80,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,511
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piss
Nearest frequency peer: piss (-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 « pistil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piquetage
piquetage
19,493 corpus weight
- piratées
piratées
19,492 corpus weight
- piss
piss
19,491 corpus weight
- pistil
pistil
19,490 corpus weight
- piteusement
piteusement
19,489 corpus weight
- plaidera
plaidera
19,487 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pistil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pistil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pis.til\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pistil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pistil is uncommon French at frequency #80,511 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pis.til\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "L’ensemble des organes femelles d’une fleur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pistil in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pistil, spelled P-I-S-T-I-L.
Definition
- 1L’ensemble des organes femelles d’une fleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pistil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dés la première floraison, elles deviennent d’immenses lupanars à ciel ouvert où des quantités d’engagés font office d’entremetteurs, titillent le pistil, chatouillent l’étamine, fécondent jusqu’à deux mille fleurs par jour.
Quand le pistil manque, la fleur est stérile.
Antonyms
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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