pistolero
\pis.to.le.ʁo\
The verdict
“pistolero” is uncommon French (frequency #76,007 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,007
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme de main.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pistolero · pistolero · French
pistolero · rank #76,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,007
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pipés
Nearest frequency peer: pipés (-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 « pistolero »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phénoménales
phénoménales
23,997 corpus weight
- pigmentaires
pigmentaires
23,996 corpus weight
- pipés
pipés
23,995 corpus weight
- pistolero
pistolero
23,994 corpus weight
- pistonné
pistonné
23,993 corpus weight
- pitres
pitres
23,992 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pistolero » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pistolero |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pis.to.le.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pistolero » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pistolero is uncommon French at frequency #76,007 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pis.to.le.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Homme de main.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pistolero, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pistolero, spelled P-I-S-T-O-L-E-R-O.
Definition
- 1Homme de main.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pistolero appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pistolero danse derrière Lydia en donnant des coups dans sa chaise.
– Ma parole, votre vieux pistolero a nettoyé son revolver avec cette serviette, déclara-t-il. Elle est dégueulasse. – S’il s’est contenté de nettoyer son six coups, tu devrais pas te plaindre, fit Augustus. Il aurait pu se torcher avec. – Nom d’un chien, vous vous lavez donc jamais ? demanda Jake. Ce vieux Chicano n’a même pas voulu me donner une bassine…
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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