Pégase
\pe.ɡaz\
The verdict
“Pégase” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,226. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,226
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cheval ailé fabuleux auquel les anciens poètes ont donné des ailes et qui, selon eux, fit jaillir d’un coup de pied les eaux de l’Hippocrène.
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 | Pégase |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pe.ɡaz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pégase” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Pégase (IPA \pe.ɡaz\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,226 among 248,534 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pégase, with forms such as "pegase", "pgéase", and "ppégase". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "phase", "pensé", "perse", 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 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 Pégase, spelled P-É-G-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Cheval ailé fabuleux auquel les anciens poètes ont donné des ailes et qui, selon eux, fit jaillir d’un coup de pied les eaux de l’Hippocrène.
- 2S’emploie dans plusieurs expressions poétiques ou relatives à la poésie.
- 3Constellation de l’hémisphère boréal, bordée par Andromède, le Lézard, le Cygne, le Petit Renard, le Dauphin, le Petit Cheval, le Verseau et les Poissons.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pegase
- pgéase
- ppégase
- pégasse
- péggase
- pégsae
- épgase
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pégase - 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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Using “Pégase”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-É-G-A-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pe.ɡaz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “phase” - see the side-by-side comparison. Pégase vs phase
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.