pêche

/\pɛʃ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,639

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

pêche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit du pêcher, parfumé et d’un goût savoureux, dont le très dur noyau est enrobé par une chair jaune ou blanche et une fine peau veloutée de teinte jaune et rouge-orange. Pronounced \pɛʃ\. It ranks #2,639 in French word frequency. Often confused with pee and père.

Key facts for pêche
PropertyValue
Headwordpêche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛʃ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,639
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pêche in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pêche is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,639 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for pêche, with forms such as "pcêhe", "peche", and "ppêche". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pee", "père", "puce", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pêche, spelled P-Ê-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fruit du pêcher, parfumé et d’un goût savoureux, dont le très dur noyau est enrobé par une chair jaune ou blanche et une fine peau veloutée de teinte jaune et rouge-orange.
  2. 2
    Tête, visage, gueule → voir pomme et poire.
  3. 3
    Coup de poing ou gifle porté au visage → voir châtaigne et marron.
  4. 4
    Tonus, forme.
  5. 5
    Caca.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pcêhe,peche,ppêche,pêcche,pêceh,pêchhe,pêhce,êpche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pêche

Misspelling Variants of "pêche"

pcêhe5peche5ppêche6pêcche6pêceh5pêchhe6pêhce5êpche5
Misspelling Variants of "pêche"

Frequency rank: #2,639 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pêche"?
"pêche" is spelled P-Ê-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛʃ\.
What does "pêche" mean?
As a noun, "pêche" means: Fruit du pêcher, parfumé et d’un goût savoureux, dont le très dur noyau est enrobé par une chair jaune ou blanche et une fine peau veloutée de teinte jaune et rouge-orange.
What words are commonly confused with "pêche"?
"pêche" is commonly confused with "pee", "père", "puce". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pêche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pêche" is \pɛʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pêche" come from?
"pêche" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.