più
\ˈpju\
The verdict
“più” is uncommon French (frequency #51,046 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,046
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piu · più · French
più · rank #51,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,046
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pisciculture
Nearest frequency peer: pisciculture (-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 « più »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pies
pies
48,958 corpus weight
- pirogues
pirogues
48,957 corpus weight
- pisciculture
pisciculture
48,956 corpus weight
- più
più
48,955 corpus weight
- plaisaient
plaisaient
48,954 corpus weight
- pliable
pliable
48,953 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « più » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | più |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈpju\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #51,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « più » en français
Rare enough to double-check
più is uncommon French at frequency #51,046 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈpju\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plus.".
No misspelling variants are generated for più in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 più, spelled P-I-Ù.
Definition
- 1Plus.
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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