pairie

\pe.ʁi\

/\pe.ʁi\/ noun

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The verdict

“pairie” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,440. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,440
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dignité de pair qui était attachée à un grand fief relevant immédiatement de la couronne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pairie · pairie · French

pairie · rank #41,440 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,440
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH paganisme

Nearest frequency peer: paganisme (-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 « pairie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pairie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pairie vs pire
67% similar
pairie vs pari
67% similar
pairie vs prié
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pairie
PropertyValue
Headwordpairie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pe.ʁi\
Letters6
Frequency rank#41,440
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pairie »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).pairiese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « paganisme » (#41,439), « Palaiseau » (#41,441), « oublierais » (#41,438). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pairie » est au #41,440. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around pairie (IPA \pe.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,440 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pairie, with forms such as "apirie", "paiire", and "pairei". 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, "pire", "pari", "prié", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pairie, spelled P-A-I-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dignité de pair qui était attachée à un grand fief relevant immédiatement de la couronne.
  2. 2
    Fief, domaine auquel cette dignité était attachée.
  3. 3
    Dignité de membre de la Chambre qui, en France, de 1814 à 1848, concourait avec le roi et avec la Chambre des députés à la confection des lois.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les honneurs, les prérogatives de la pairie.
  2. Pairie héréditaire.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apirie
  • paiire
  • pairei
  • pairrie
  • pariie
  • piarie
  • ppairie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pairie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

apirie2paiire2pairei2pairrie1pariie2piarie2ppairie1
Edit distance from "pairie"

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 "pairie"?
"pairie" is spelled P-A-I-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pe.ʁi\.
What does "pairie" mean?
As a noun, "pairie" means: Dignité de pair qui était attachée à un grand fief relevant immédiatement de la couronne.
What words are commonly confused with "pairie"?
"pairie" is commonly confused with "pire", "pari", "prié". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pairie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pairie" is \pe.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pairie" come from?
"pairie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Pessac#41,448pister#41,454nocive#41,424plient#41,456

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

polir7 variantspommeau7 variantsmeans7 variantsMagda7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list