pivert
\pi.vɛʁ\
The verdict
“pivert” is uncommon French (frequency #66,997 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,997
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pic au plumage jaune et vert.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pivert · pivert · French
pivert · rank #66,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,997
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piétinement
Nearest frequency peer: piétinement (+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 « pivert »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pinter
pinter
33,007 corpus weight
- pistage
pistage
33,006 corpus weight
- pivert
pivert
33,004 corpus weight
- piétinement
piétinement
33,003 corpus weight
- plaisais
plaisais
33,002 corpus weight
- plaisantais
plaisantais
33,001 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pivert » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pivert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pivert » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pivert is uncommon French at frequency #66,997 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.vɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pivert in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pivert, spelled P-I-V-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Pic au plumage jaune et vert.
- 2L’un des régionalismes désignant le martin-pêcheur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pivert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pivert ne tambourine pas, et se nourrit principalement au sol.
Le pivert, ou picvert, est le plus connu des quelque 200 espèces de pics.
This word in other languages
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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