Pyrex
\pi.ʁɛks\
The verdict
“Pyrex” is uncommon French (frequency #87,057 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,057
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verre très résistant, notamment à la chaleur car son coefficient de dilatation thermique est très faible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pyrex · Pyrex · French
Pyrex · rank #87,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,057
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pully
Nearest frequency peer: pully (-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 « Pyrex »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préoccupez
préoccupez
12,947 corpus weight
- pully
pully
12,945 corpus weight
- Pyrex
Pyrex
12,944 corpus weight
- pépiniérist…
pépiniéristes
12,943 corpus weight
- périnatale
périnatale
12,942 corpus weight
- périurbains
périurbains
12,941 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pyrex » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pyrex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ʁɛks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pyrex » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pyrex is uncommon French at frequency #87,057 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ʁɛks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Verre très résistant, notamment à la chaleur car son coefficient de dilatation thermique est très faible.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Pyrex in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Pyrex, spelled P-Y-R-E-X.
Definition
- 1Verre très résistant, notamment à la chaleur car son coefficient de dilatation thermique est très faible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pyrex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vin était servi dans des verres en Pyrex.
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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