peer
\ˈpɪɹ\
The verdict
“peer” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,709) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,709
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pair (autre personne de même condition et de même rang qu’une personne).
Corpus desk
Index FR-peer · peer · French
peer · rank #24,709 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,709
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH payeur
Nearest frequency peer: payeur (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « peer »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- patrimoines
patrimoines
75,295 corpus weight
- patronale
patronale
75,294 corpus weight
- payeur
payeur
75,293 corpus weight
- peer
peer
75,292 corpus weight
- pend
pend
75,291 corpus weight
- pensionnat
pensionnat
75,290 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « peer » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | peer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɪɹ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « peer »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for peer is neighbouring look-alikes ("Pr", "peu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈpɪɹ\. Frequency #24,709 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for peer, with forms such as "eper", "peerr", and "per". 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, "Pr", "peu", "pen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is peer, spelled P-E-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pair (autre personne de même condition et de même rang qu’une personne).
- 2Noble, seigneur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eper
- peerr
- per
- ppeer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of peer - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "peer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).