pitreries

\pit.ʁə.ʁi\

/\pit.ʁə.ʁi\/ noun

The verdict

“pitreries” is uncommon French (frequency #74,281 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#74,281
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pitrerie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pitreries · pitreries · French

pitreries · rank #74,281 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #74,281
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pinay

Nearest frequency peer: pinay (-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 « pitreries »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pitreries » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for pitreries
PropertyValue
Headwordpitreries
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pit.ʁə.ʁi\
Letters9
Frequency rank#74,281
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « pitreries » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).pitreriestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « pinay » (#74,280), « planchette » (#74,282), « plébiscitent » (#74,283). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pitreries » est au #74,281. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pitreries is uncommon French at frequency #74,281 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pit.ʁə.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pitrerie.".

Zero misspellings are on record for pitreries in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

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 pitreries, spelled P-I-T-R-E-R-I-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de pitrerie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pitreries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ces pitreries résultaient plus de la révolte et de l’agressivité qu’il ressentait par sa condition de vie.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pitreries"?
"pitreries" is spelled P-I-T-R-E-R-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pit.ʁə.ʁi\.
What does "pitreries" mean?
As a noun, "pitreries" means: Pluriel de pitrerie.
How do you pronounce "pitreries"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pitreries" is \pit.ʁə.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pitreries" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pitreries", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list