pitcher
\pit.ʃe\
The verdict
“pitcher” is uncommon French (frequency #70,944 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,944
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pitcher · pitcher · French
pitcher · rank #70,944 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,944
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pisé
Nearest frequency peer: pisé (-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 « pitcher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pilonnage
pilonnage
29,059 corpus weight
- pisé
pisé
29,058 corpus weight
- pitcher
pitcher
29,057 corpus weight
- plaisantez
plaisantez
29,056 corpus weight
- plaisantin
plaisantin
29,055 corpus weight
- plas
plas
29,054 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pitcher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pitcher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pit.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pitcher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pitcher is uncommon French at frequency #70,944 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pit.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pitcher in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pitcher, spelled P-I-T-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Lancer.
- 2Faire une présentation très courte et convaincante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pitcher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous vous sentez prêts à pitcher vos plus beaux projets.
Ta mère a coutume de dire « si tu pitches les pâtes au plafond pis que ça colle, c’est parce que c’est cuit. »
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).