Peirce
"peirce" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Peirce” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #38,549. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,549
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname transferred from the given name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-peirce · Peirce · English
Peirce · rank #38,549 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,549
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH peerage
Nearest frequency peer: peerage (-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 “Peirce”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- patter
patter
61,454 corpus weight
- peerage
peerage
61,453 corpus weight
- Peirce
Peirce
61,452 corpus weight
- peloton
peloton
61,451 corpus weight
- permissive
permissive
61,450 corpus weight
- phrased
phrased
61,449 corpus weight
What this shows “Peirce” 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 | Peirce |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Peirce”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Peirce, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #38,549 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname transferred from the given name.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Peirce, with forms such as "epirce", "peicre", and "peircce". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "price", "piece", "pence", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: A variant of Piers. The correct English form is Peirce, spelled P-E-I-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1A surname transferred from the given name.
Etymology
A variant of Piers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epirce
- peicre
- peircce
- peirec
- peirrce
- perice
- ppeirce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Peirce - 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 English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Peirce", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).