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
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pegase · Pégase · French
Pégase · rank #35,226 · 7 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,226
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pues
Nearest frequency peer: pues (-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 « Pégase »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prémisses
prémisses
64,778 corpus weight
- prérogative
prérogative
64,777 corpus weight
- pues
pues
64,776 corpus weight
- Pégase
Pégase
64,775 corpus weight
- Péguy
Péguy
64,774 corpus weight
- Qatari
Qatari
64,773 corpus weight
What this shows « Pégase » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Pégase »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Pégase (IPA \pe.ɡaz\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,226 among 6,826 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pégase appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Monter sur Pégase, enfourcher Pégase : S’adonner à la poésie.
Pégase est rétif pour lui, son Pégase est rétif : C’est un mauvais poète.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).