pécule

\pe.kyl\

/\pe.kyl\/ noun

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The verdict

“pécule” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,738. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,738
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce que donnait, de son vivant, un pater familias romain à l’un de ses descendants pour son installation.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pecule · pécule · French

pécule · rank #48,738 · 9 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,738
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pètes

Nearest frequency peer: pètes (-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 « pécule »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « pécule » 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).

pécule vs poule
67% similar
pécule vs perle
50% similar
pécule vs pelle
50% similar

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

Key facts for pécule
PropertyValue
Headwordpécule
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pe.kyl\
Letters6
Frequency rank#48,738
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pécule »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).péculese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pètes » (#48,737), « Pétrarque » (#48,739), « préparera » (#48,736). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pécule » est au #48,738. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around pécule (IPA \pe.kyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,738 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pécule, with forms such as "pcéule", "pecule", and "ppécule". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "poule", "perle", "pelle", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pécule, spelled P-É-C-U-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce que donnait, de son vivant, un pater familias romain à l’un de ses descendants pour son installation.
  2. 2
    Ce qu’un esclave amassait par ses épargnes et qui lui servait à racheter sa liberté.
  3. 3
    Ce qu’une personne en puissance d’autrui acquiert par son industrie, par son travail et par son épargne, et dont il lui est permis de disposer.
  4. 4
    Désigne encore, d’une manière plus générale, une petite somme d’argent amassée peu à peu.
  5. 5
    Argent gagné jour par jour et qui n’est remis à un soldat, à un détenu que le jour de sa libération.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le père peut déléguer à un fils la gestion et la jouissance d’une partie de son bien : il peut lui attribuer un pécule, mais c’est à titre de concession bénévole et toujours révocable.
  2. Cet esclave avait amassé un pécule assez considérable.

This word in other languages

nest-egg(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pcéule
  • pecule
  • ppécule
  • péccule
  • péclue
  • pécuel
  • péculle
  • péucle
  • épcule

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pécule - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

pcéule2pecule1ppécule1péccule1péclue2pécuel2péculle1péucle2
Edit distance from "pécule"

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 "pécule"?
"pécule" is spelled P-É-C-U-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pe.kyl\.
What does "pécule" mean?
As a noun, "pécule" means: Ce que donnait, de son vivant, un pater familias romain à l’un de ses descendants pour son installation.
What words are commonly confused with "pécule"?
"pécule" is commonly confused with "poule", "perle", "pelle". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pécule"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pécule" is \pe.kyl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pécule" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

radial#48,742pickup#48,717Renata#48,759rodage#48,768

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

rolando9 variantsoffrirai9 variantssablon9 variantsnerval9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list