pyrite
\pi.ʁit\
The verdict
“pyrite” is uncommon French (frequency #70,136 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,136
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Minéral composé de sulfure de fer, de formule FeS₂.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pyrite · pyrite · French
pyrite · rank #70,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,136
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puppet
Nearest frequency peer: puppet (-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 « pyrite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prépayées
prépayées
29,869 corpus weight
- puppet
puppet
29,866 corpus weight
- pyrite
pyrite
29,865 corpus weight
- pyrotechnie
pyrotechnie
29,864 corpus weight
- pâteuse
pâteuse
29,863 corpus weight
- pélicans
pélicans
29,862 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pyrite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pyrite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ʁit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pyrite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pyrite is uncommon French at frequency #70,136 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.ʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Minéral composé de sulfure de fer, de formule FeS₂.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pyrite, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pyrite, spelled P-Y-R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Minéral composé de sulfure de fer, de formule FeS₂.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pyrite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La chalazias eſt de la couleur & de la figure d’un grain de grêle (29), & elle eſt dure comme un diamant. On dit même qu’étant miſe au feu, elle conſerve ſa froideur. La pyrite (30) eſt noire ; mais quand on la frotte avec ſes doigts, elle les brûle. La polyzone (31) eſt pareillement noire, mais environnée de pluſieurs lignes blanchâtres.
La houille est généralement assez impure et contient des pyrites et des matières argileuses qui agissent d’une manière fâcheuse dans plusieurs opérations industrielles. Le soufre des pyrites donne à la fonte de mauvaises qualités […]
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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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