pyrotechnique
\pi.ʁɔ.tɛk.nik\
The verdict
“pyrotechnique” is uncommon French (frequency #63,270 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,270
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à la pyrotechnie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pyrotechnique · pyrotechnique · French
pyrotechnique · rank #63,270 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,270
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pygmée
Nearest frequency peer: pygmée (-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 « pyrotechnique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préférentie…
préférentiellement
36,734 corpus weight
- préviendra
préviendra
36,733 corpus weight
- pygmée
pygmée
36,732 corpus weight
- pyrotechniq…
pyrotechnique
36,731 corpus weight
- périssable
périssable
36,730 corpus weight
- péritonite
péritonite
36,729 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pyrotechnique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pyrotechnique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pi.ʁɔ.tɛk.nik\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #63,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pyrotechnique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pyrotechnique is uncommon French at frequency #63,270 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pi.ʁɔ.tɛk.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui appartient à la pyrotechnie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pyrotechnique in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pyrotechnique, spelled P-Y-R-O-T-E-C-H-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à la pyrotechnie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pyrotechnique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les poudres flash sont des mélanges pyrotechniques non seulement déflagrants, mais aussi détonants. Sur plusieurs centaines de bombes annuellement en cause, il y a environ 15% de cas où il est fait usage de poudres flash.
« Le projet de dissolution repose sur un dossier vide, assure Me Frédéric Rollin, en charge de la défense des Supras. Certains des huit griefs imputés n’ont aucun sens. Par exemple, il est reproché à mes clients d’avoir tenté de dégrader des grilles séparatives face à Vesoul. Contre Monaco, il est reproché d’avoir introduit des engins pyrotechniques dans…
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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