peck
\pɛk\
The verdict
“peck” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,243. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,243
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de volume utilisée en Angleterre ou aux États-Unis et valant deux gallons soit 9,09218 litres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peck · peck · French
peck · rank #34,243 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,243
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH penserait
Nearest frequency peer: penserait (+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 « peck »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- patriarcale
patriarcale
65,761 corpus weight
- paysager
paysager
65,760 corpus weight
- peck
peck
65,758 corpus weight
- penserait
penserait
65,757 corpus weight
- perchée
perchée
65,756 corpus weight
- perçois
perçois
65,755 corpus weight
What this shows « peck » 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 | peck |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « peck »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around peck (IPA \pɛk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,243 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Unité de volume utilisée en Angleterre ou aux États-Unis et valant deux gallons soit 9,09218 litres.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for peck, with forms such as "epck", "pcek", and "pecck". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PK", "peu", "pen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is peck, spelled P-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1Unité de volume utilisée en Angleterre ou aux États-Unis et valant deux gallons soit 9,09218 litres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how peck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a regardé, pendant longtemps, la valeur d'un peck (9 litres) de froment, pour l'Angleterre, et, pour l'Écosse, celle d'un peck de gruau d'avoine, comme l'équivalant du prix de la journée d'un manouvrier, ces deux denrées étant l'article principal de la nourriture du bas peuple, dans ces deux pays.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epck
- pcek
- pecck
- peckk
- pekc
- ppeck
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of peck - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).