pastèque
\pas.tɛk\
The verdict
“pastèque” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,172. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,172
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante de la famille des cucurbitacées, cultivée pour ses fruits, de nom taxinomique Citrullus lanatus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pasteque · pastèque · French
pastèque · rank #27,172 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,172
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passèrent
Nearest frequency peer: passèrent (-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 « pastèque »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Papineau
Papineau
72,832 corpus weight
- papyrus
papyrus
72,831 corpus weight
- passèrent
passèrent
72,830 corpus weight
- pastèque
pastèque
72,829 corpus weight
- patronyme
patronyme
72,828 corpus weight
- Pavel
Pavel
72,827 corpus weight
What this shows « pastèque » 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 | pastèque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pas.tɛk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pastèque »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pastèque (IPA \pas.tɛk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,172 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pastèque, with forms such as "apstèque", "passtèque", and "pasteque". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "pasteur", "plastique", "pastèques", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pastèque, spelled P-A-S-T-È-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des cucurbitacées, cultivée pour ses fruits, de nom taxinomique Citrullus lanatus.
- 2Fruit comestible de cette plante, gros, lisse et à chair rose, rouge, verdâtre ou blanche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pastèque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pastèque et melon sont cités dans les règlements urbains médiévaux de Perpignan, indiquant qu’ils sont couramment cultivés en Roussillon au moins depuis le XIIIᵉ siècle dans les potagers et ils sont largement illustrés dans les tacuins qui en montrent les techniques de culture [Daunay et al., 2009].
La salinité élevée des sols dans la partie ouest d’Ouarizane, où se trouve cette catégorie d’attributaires, réduit leurs possibilités de diversification en termes de production maraîchère. Ils ne peuvent pas, par exemple, pratiquer la culture du melon ou de la pastèque qui aurait pu leur procurer des revenus agricoles plus importants que ceux dégagés par…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apstèque
- passtèque
- pasteque
- pastqèue
- pasttèque
- pastèqeu
- pastèqque
- pastèuqe
- pasètque
- patsèque
- ppastèque
- psatèque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pastèque - 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.
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
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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 (12 here; floor ≥5).