pivoine
\pi.vwan\
The verdict
“pivoine” is uncommon French (frequency #62,526 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,526
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante de la famille des Renonculacées, à grosses fleurs rouges, panachées ou blanches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pivoine · pivoine · French
pivoine · rank #62,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,526
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pilots
Nearest frequency peer: pilots (-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 « pivoine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piastre
piastre
37,478 corpus weight
- pilotez
pilotez
37,477 corpus weight
- pilots
pilots
37,476 corpus weight
- pivoine
pivoine
37,475 corpus weight
- pivotant
pivotant
37,474 corpus weight
- plaindra
plaindra
37,473 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pivoine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pivoine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.vwan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pivoine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pivoine is uncommon French at frequency #62,526 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.vwan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
pivoine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 pivoine, spelled P-I-V-O-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des Renonculacées, à grosses fleurs rouges, panachées ou blanches.
- 2En rapport avec la couleur de la plante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pivoine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Cétoine dorée ou Émeraudine de Geoffroy est très commune; à l'état parfait, elle est essentiellement floricole, elle fréquente depuis la fin de mai jusqu'au commencement de l'automne, dans les champs, les fleurs des Ombellifères et des Chardons, et dans les jardins, les Roses, les Pivoines et les Lilas.
La pivoine, sanguine en son premier mois, pousse d’un tel jet que ses hampes, ses feuilles à peine dépliées traversent, emportent et suspendent dans l’air leur suprême croûte de terre comme un toit crevé.
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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