pivoines
\pi.vwan\
The verdict
“pivoines” is uncommon French (frequency #64,000 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,000
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pivoine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pivoines · pivoines · French
pivoines · rank #64,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,000
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piquette
Nearest frequency peer: piquette (-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 « pivoines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phrygien
phrygien
36,005 corpus weight
- piquette
piquette
36,002 corpus weight
- pivoines
pivoines
36,001 corpus weight
- plaidait
plaidait
36,000 corpus weight
- plaisanté
plaisanté
35,999 corpus weight
- plantage
plantage
35,998 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pivoines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pivoines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.vwan\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pivoines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pivoines is uncommon French at frequency #64,000 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.vwan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pivoine.".
pivoines has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pivoines, spelled P-I-V-O-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pivoine.
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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