Pitcairn
\pit.kɛʁn\
The verdict
“Pitcairn” is uncommon French (frequency #94,125 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,125
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Principale île des îles Pitcairn, la seule à être habitée, et qui a donné son nom au territoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pitcairn · Pitcairn · French
Pitcairn · rank #94,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,125
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pistou
Nearest frequency peer: pistou (-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 « Pitcairn »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pinheiro
pinheiro
5,879 corpus weight
- pinçait
pinçait
5,878 corpus weight
- pistou
pistou
5,877 corpus weight
- Pitcairn
Pitcairn
5,876 corpus weight
- Pitot
Pitot
5,875 corpus weight
- piégeant
piégeant
5,874 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pitcairn » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pitcairn |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pit.kɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pitcairn » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pitcairn is uncommon French at frequency #94,125 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pit.kɛʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Principale île des îles Pitcairn, la seule à être habitée, et qui a donné son nom au territoire.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Pitcairn, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Pitcairn, spelled P-I-T-C-A-I-R-N.
Definition
- 1Principale île des îles Pitcairn, la seule à être habitée, et qui a donné son nom au territoire.
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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