pyrame
\pi.ʁam\
The verdict
“pyrame” is uncommon French (frequency #91,066 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,066
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite race de chiens de la division des épagneuls.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pyrame · pyrame · French
pyrame · rank #91,066 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,066
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH purpura
Nearest frequency peer: purpura (-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 « pyrame »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pugnace
pugnace
8,937 corpus weight
- purpura
purpura
8,936 corpus weight
- pyrame
pyrame
8,935 corpus weight
- péjorativem…
péjorativement
8,934 corpus weight
- pélagique
pélagique
8,933 corpus weight
- pêchant
pêchant
8,932 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pyrame » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pyrame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ʁam\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pyrame » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pyrame is uncommon French at frequency #91,066 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ʁam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite race de chiens de la division des épagneuls.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pyrame, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 pyrame, spelled P-Y-R-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Petite race de chiens de la division des épagneuls.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pyrame appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] le grand et le petit épagneul, qui ne diffèrent que par la taille, transportés en Angleterre, ont changé de couleur du blanc au noir, et sont devenus, par l'influence du climat, grand et petit gredins ; auxquels on doit joindre le pyrame qui n’est qu’un gredin noir comme les autres, mais marqué de feu aux quatre pattes, aux yeux et au museau.
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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