peach
/piːt͡ʃ/
"peach" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“peach” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,105. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,105
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
Corpus desk
Index EN-peach · peach · English
peach · rank #10,105 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,105
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pathway
Nearest frequency peer: pathway (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “peach”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- packet
packet
89,900 corpus weight
- pads
pads
89,899 corpus weight
- pathway
pathway
89,897 corpus weight
- peach
peach
89,896 corpus weight
- persuaded
persuaded
89,895 corpus weight
- polo
polo
89,893 corpus weight
What this shows “peach” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peach |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /piːt͡ʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “peach”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around peach (IPA /piːt͡ʃ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,105 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for peach, with forms such as "epach", "paech", and "peacch". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pec", "peak", "peas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s)bor. Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs)der. Late Latin Persa Late Latin persicus Late Latin persicum Late Latin persica Vulgar Latin *pessica Old French peschebor. Middle English peche English peach From Middle Englis… The correct English form is peach, spelled P-E-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- 2Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
- 3A light yellow-red colour.
- 4A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
- 5Buttock or bottom.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peach appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list.
Several attempts have been made to class the varieties of Peaches and Nectarines by the leaf and flower, as well as the fruit.
Etymology
Etymology tree Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s)bor. Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs)der. Late Latin Persa Late Latin persicus Late Latin persicum Late Latin persica Vulgar Latin *pessica Old French peschebor. Middle English peche English peach From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogʒe, from Old English persoc, from the same Latin root above.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epach
- paech
- peacch
- peachh
- peahc
- pecah
- ppeach
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of peach - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar misspelling depth
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