pitons
\pi.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“pitons” is uncommon French (frequency #60,279 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,279
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de piton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pitons · pitons · French
pitons · rank #60,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,279
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pissenlits
Nearest frequency peer: pissenlits (-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 « pitons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- picotements
picotements
39,725 corpus weight
- pinacle
pinacle
39,724 corpus weight
- pissenlits
pissenlits
39,723 corpus weight
- pitons
pitons
39,722 corpus weight
- plaquées
plaquées
39,721 corpus weight
- plasmatique
plasmatique
39,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pitons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pitons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pitons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pitons is uncommon French at frequency #60,279 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de piton.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pitons, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pitons, spelled P-I-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de piton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pitons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rencontre d’une famille touareg ou mieux touareguisée, car les habitants sont fortement métissés de Soudanais, pêche de poissons dans les gueltas ou sources naturelles, poissons aujourd’hui déposés au Musée d’histoire naturelle, activités artisanales dans l’oasis de Djanet, centre administratif de cette région, au milieu d’une oasis d’un million de dattie…
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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