pistonné
\pis.tɔ.ne\
The verdict
“pistonné” is uncommon French (frequency #76,008 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,008
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui a bénéficié du piston pour accéder à un emploi, à un grade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pistonne · pistonné · French
pistonné · rank #76,008 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,008
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pistolero
Nearest frequency peer: pistolero (-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 « pistonné »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- pivotante
pivotante
23,991 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pistonné » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pistonné |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pis.tɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pistonné » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pistonné is uncommon French at frequency #76,008 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pis.tɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui a bénéficié du piston pour accéder à un emploi, à un grade.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pistonné in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pistonné, spelled P-I-S-T-O-N-N-É.
Definition
- 1Celui qui a bénéficié du piston pour accéder à un emploi, à un grade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pistonné appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’enseignement secondaire était bouché par des postulantes moins nombreuses que les primaires, mais mille fois plus pistonnées.
Il avait trente ans. Il était pistonné. Il le serait toujours car il faisait le nécessaire ; et il avait épousé une femme qui louchait mais qui l’apparentait aux familles en place.
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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