pyrotechnique

\pi.ʁɔ.tɛk.nik\

/\pi.ʁɔ.tɛk.nik\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pyrotechnique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for pyrotechnique
PropertyValue
Headwordpyrotechnique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pi.ʁɔ.tɛk.nik\
Letters13
Frequency rank#63,270
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « pyrotechnique » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).pyrotechniquetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « pygmée » (#63,269), « périssable » (#63,271), « préviendra » (#63,268). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pyrotechnique » est au #63,270. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui appartient à la pyrotechnie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pyrotechnique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. « 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pyrotechnique"?
"pyrotechnique" is spelled P-Y-R-O-T-E-C-H-N-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pi.ʁɔ.tɛk.nik\.
What does "pyrotechnique" mean?
As an adjective, "pyrotechnique" means: Qui appartient à la pyrotechnie.
How do you pronounce "pyrotechnique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pyrotechnique" is \pi.ʁɔ.tɛk.nik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pyrotechnique", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list