pistol
\pɪˡstuːl\
The verdict
“pistol” is uncommon French (frequency #84,172 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,172
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pistolet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pistol · pistol · French
pistol · rank #84,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,172
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pigs
Nearest frequency peer: pigs (-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 « pistol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- photomontag…
photomontages
15,833 corpus weight
- Picart
Picart
15,832 corpus weight
- pierreries
pierreries
15,831 corpus weight
- pigs
pigs
15,830 corpus weight
- pistol
pistol
15,829 corpus weight
- piétinant
piétinant
15,828 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pistol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pistol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɪˡstuːl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pistol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pistol is uncommon French at frequency #84,172 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɪˡstuːl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pistolet.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pistol, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pistol, spelled P-I-S-T-O-L.
Definition
- 1Pistolet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pistol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mannen truet den ansatte med en pistol mot hodet.
Synonyms
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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