pita
\pi.ta\
The verdict
“pita” is uncommon French (frequency #50,420 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,420
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Galette de pain, traditionnelle dans le monde méditerranéen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pita · pita · French
pita · rank #50,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,420
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planta
Nearest frequency peer: planta (+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 « pita »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pincé
pincé
49,584 corpus weight
- pirouettes
pirouettes
49,583 corpus weight
- pita
pita
49,581 corpus weight
- planta
planta
49,580 corpus weight
- plasticiens
plasticiens
49,579 corpus weight
- platt
platt
49,578 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pita » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pita |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ta\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pita » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pita is uncommon French at frequency #50,420 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Galette de pain, traditionnelle dans le monde méditerranéen.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pita in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pita, spelled P-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1Galette de pain, traditionnelle dans le monde méditerranéen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pita appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce nectar est évidemment au cœur de la recette du muhammara syrien, un dip de poivrons rouges grillés au four puis mixés avec cerneaux de noix, ail, chapelure, huile d’olive, jus de citron, sel, cumin et flocons de piment d’Alep, à déguster sur du pain pita : un kif levantin !
On apporta ensuite des saladiers de chou râpé, de poivrons rouges grillés et de cornichons, ainsi qu’une grande assiette sur laquelle fumait une pita au fromage.
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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