piston
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,560
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
piston is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cylindre mobile dans le corps d’une pompe, organe de machine constitué par une cloison, mobile entre deux fluides à des pressions différentes, et destiné à transmettre un effort moteur. Pronounced \pis.tɔ̃\. Often confused with piton and prison.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piston |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pis.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for piston is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pis.tɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,560 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for piston, with forms such as "ipston", "pisotn", and "pisston". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "piton", "prison", "poison", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is piston, spelled P-I-S-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cylindre mobile dans le corps d’une pompe, organe de machine constitué par une cloison, mobile entre deux fluides à des pressions différentes, et destiné à transmettre un effort moteur.
- 2Cause d’action, de mouvement.
- 3Recommandation, protection.
- 4Valve cylindrique de certains instruments à vent, permettant de moduler les notes.
- 5Cornet à pistons.
- 6Appareil de verrier appelé généralement pompe de Robinet.
- 7Cylindre ou bouchon qui obturait naguère la cuvette dans les cabinets d’aisance.
- 8Petit bouton sur lequel on presse pour ouvrir une boîte.
- 9Capitaine.
- 10Élève de l’École centrale, ou personne se préparant à l'être.
- 11Différence de marche variable induite par la turbulence atmosphérique.
- 12Pièce mobile qui, poussée à l’intérieur d’une canalisation par le fluide qui y circule, assure différentes opérations de contrôle et d’entretien.
- 13Joueur qui est capable de se déplacer rapidement vers l’avant ou vers l’arrière, à droite ou à gauche du terrain, ce qui peut évoquer le mouvement d’un piston.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipston,pisotn,pisston,pistno,pistonn,pistton,pitson,ppiston,psiton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for piston
Misspelling Variants of "piston"
Frequency rank: #18,560 in French
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