pacifier
\pa.si.fje\
The verdict
“pacifier” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,921. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,921
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apaiser, calmer en rétablissant la paix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pacifier · pacifier · French
pacifier · rank #39,921 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,921
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH oyez
Nearest frequency peer: oyez (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pacifier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ordonnés
ordonnés
60,083 corpus weight
- outrée
outrée
60,082 corpus weight
- oyez
oyez
60,081 corpus weight
- pacifier
pacifier
60,080 corpus weight
- palpitante
palpitante
60,079 corpus weight
- parfumées
parfumées
60,077 corpus weight
What this shows « pacifier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | pacifier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.si.fje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pacifier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around pacifier (IPA \pa.si.fje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,921 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Apaiser, calmer en rétablissant la paix.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pacifier, with forms such as "apcifier", "paccifier", and "pacfiier". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "purifier", "planifier", "Pacific", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pacifier, spelled P-A-C-I-F-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Apaiser, calmer en rétablissant la paix.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pacifier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès ce moment, Dombrowski et ses soldats sont attachés à la fortune de la France. Ils pacifient Reggio.
[…] Cédric le Saxon fut appelé à la cour de Richard, qui alors était à York, occupé à pacifier les provinces que l’ambition de son frère avait troublées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apcifier
- paccifier
- pacfiier
- pacifeir
- paciffier
- pacifierr
- pacifire
- paciifer
- paicfier
- pcaifier
- ppacifier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pacifier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pacifier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).