pêche
\pɛʃ\
The verdict
“pêche” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,639. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,639
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peche · pêche · French
pêche · rank #2,639 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,639
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pub
Nearest frequency peer: pub (-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 « pêche »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- précisément
précisément
97,365 corpus weight
- pub
pub
97,363 corpus weight
- pêche
pêche
97,362 corpus weight
- rarement
rarement
97,361 corpus weight
- Re
Re
97,360 corpus weight
- recettes
recettes
97,359 corpus weight
What this shows « pêche » 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 | pêche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pêche »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pêche (IPA \pɛʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,639 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pêche, with forms such as "pcêhe", "peche", and "ppêche". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pee", "père", "puce", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pêche, spelled P-Ê-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Fruit 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.
- 2Tête, visage, gueule → voir pomme et poire.
- 3Coup de poing ou gifle porté au visage → voir châtaigne et marron.
- 4Tonus, forme.
- 5Caca.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pêche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un jour, on apporta au roi un plateau de fruits de longue vie (pêches). Trang Quynh bien vite s’empara d’un fruit et le mangea.
À l’étalage, les beaux fruits, délicatement parés dans des paniers, avaient des rondeurs de joues qui se cachent, des faces de belles enfants entrevues à demi sous un rideau de feuilles ; les pêches surtout, les Montreuil rougissantes, de peau fine et claire comme des filles du nord, et les pêches du Midi, jaunes et brûlées, ayant le hâle des filles de Pr…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pcêhe
- peche
- ppêche
- pêcche
- pêceh
- pêchhe
- pêhce
- êpche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pêche - 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 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).