pécuniaire

\pe.ky.njɛʁ\

/\pe.ky.njɛʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“pécuniaire” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,989. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,989
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’argent ; qui consiste en argent.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pecuniaire · pécuniaire · French

pécuniaire · rank #41,989 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #41,989
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pègre

Nearest frequency peer: pègre (-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 « pécuniaire »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « pécuniaire » 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).

pécuniaire vs pécuniaires
91% similar

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

Key facts for pécuniaire
PropertyValue
Headwordpécuniaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pe.ky.njɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#41,989
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pécuniaire »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).pécuniairese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pègre » (#41,988), « périmés » (#41,990), « raconta » (#41,991). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pécuniaire » est au #41,989. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around pécuniaire (IPA \pe.ky.njɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,989 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à l’argent ; qui consiste en argent.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for pécuniaire, with forms such as "pcéuniaire", "pecuniaire", and "ppécuniaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pécuniaires", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pécuniaire, spelled P-É-C-U-N-I-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à l’argent ; qui consiste en argent.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il est des cas où la satisfaction pécuniaire est demandée par la nature même du délit : il est d'autres cas où c'est la seule que les circonstances permettent.
  2. Ce pauvre homme, sans moyens pécuniaires, premier clerc depuis dix ans, atteignait alors à l’âge de quarante ans et se voyait clerc pour le reste de ses jours.

Synonyms

pécunier

This word in other languages

pecuniary(English)pecuniario(Español)pekuniär(Deutsch)pecuniário(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pcéuniaire
  • pecuniaire
  • ppécuniaire
  • péccuniaire
  • pécnuiaire
  • pécuinaire
  • pécunaiire
  • pécuniaier
  • pécuniairre
  • pécuniarie
  • pécuniiare
  • pécunniaire
  • péucniaire
  • épcuniaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pécuniaire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

pcéuniaire2pecuniaire1ppécuniaire1péccuniaire1pécnuiaire2pécuinaire2pécunaiire2pécuniaier2
Edit distance from "pécuniaire"

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 "pécuniaire"?
"pécuniaire" is spelled P-É-C-U-N-I-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pe.ky.njɛʁ\.
What does "pécuniaire" mean?
As an adjective, "pécuniaire" means: Relatif à l’argent ; qui consiste en argent.
What words are commonly confused with "pécuniaire"?
"pécuniaire" is commonly confused with "pécuniaires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pécuniaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pécuniaire" is \pe.ky.njɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pécuniaire" come from?
"pécuniaire" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

préservées#41,979reformuler#42,002prononçait#41,975prolétaire#41,974

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

published14 variantssortirent14 variantsmédiatisés14 variantsmontantes14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list