piton
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,118
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
piton is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de clou ou de vis dont la tête est en forme d’anneau. Pronounced \pi.tɔ̃\. Often confused with pon and Pitt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for piton is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.tɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,118 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for piton, with forms such as "ipton", "piotn", and "pitno". 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, "pon", "Pitt", "plon", 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 piton, spelled P-I-T-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de clou ou de vis dont la tête est en forme d’anneau.
- 2Lame métallique terminée par un œil accueillant un mousqueton, destinée à être enfoncée dans une fissure ou aspérité de la roche avec un marteau, pour agir comme ancrage afin de protéger le grimpeur d’une chute, ou pour aider à la progression en escalade artificielle.
- 3Pic, pointe d’une montagne élevée.
- 4Nez proéminent ; gros pif.
- 5Bouton sur un appareil électrique ou électronique.
- 6Technologie, appareils techniques.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipton,piotn,pitno,pitonn,pitton,ppiton,ption
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "piton"
Frequency rank: #32,118 in French
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Nearby French words
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