pixie
\pik.si\
The verdict
“pixie” is uncommon French (frequency #93,097 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,097
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Créature du folklore britannique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pixie · pixie · French
pixie · rank #93,097 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,097
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piétonniers
Nearest frequency peer: piétonniers (+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 « pixie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- piedra
piedra
6,909 corpus weight
- pilées
pilées
6,906 corpus weight
- pixie
pixie
6,904 corpus weight
- piétonniers
piétonniers
6,903 corpus weight
- plaideur
plaideur
6,901 corpus weight
- planchettes
planchettes
6,900 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pixie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pixie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pik.si\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pixie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pixie is uncommon French at frequency #93,097 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pik.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Créature du folklore britannique.".
pixie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pixie, spelled P-I-X-I-E.
Definition
- 1Créature du folklore britannique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pixie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous les soirs elles mettaient au coin de l’âtre un baquet de belle eau fraîche ; où aussi elles trouvaient, disait-on, au saut du lit, les pièces d’argent qu’elles faisaient sonner dans leurs doigts. Car les « pixies » en jetaient au baquet après s’y être baignées. Mais Nan, ni Lilly, ni personne, n’avait vu de « pixies », sinon que, dans les contes et b…
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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