pègre

\pɛɡʁ\

/\pɛɡʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“pègre” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,988. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,988
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catégorie des gens sans aveu qui vivent de friponnerie ou d’escroquerie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pegre · pègre · French

pègre · rank #41,988 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,988
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pécuniaire

Nearest frequency peer: pécuniaire (+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 « pègre »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « pègre » 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).

pègre vs pré
40% similar
pègre vs père
80% similar
pègre vs peur
40% similar

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

Key facts for pègre
PropertyValue
Headwordpègre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛɡʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#41,988
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pègre »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pécuniaire » (#41,989), « pylônes » (#41,986), « périmés » (#41,990). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pègre » est au #41,988. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around pègre (IPA \pɛɡʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,988 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Catégorie des gens sans aveu qui vivent de friponnerie ou d’escroquerie.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pègre, with forms such as "pegre", "pgère", and "ppègre". 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, "pré", "père", "peur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pègre, spelled P-È-G-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Catégorie des gens sans aveu qui vivent de friponnerie ou d’escroquerie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cette infiltration de la police partout où nous étions allé me stupéfiait. Ainsi, je n’en pouvais douter, elle avait ses secrets aboutissant jusqu’en cette basse-pègre cependant si cauteleuse.
  2. Ils remontaient au temps d’une certaine pègre pour qui la suprême élégance consistait à se pourvoir d’un couvre-chef de couleur tendre et de souliers vernis.

This word in other languages

mob(English)hampa(Español)Unterwelt(Deutsch)submundo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pegre
  • pgère
  • ppègre
  • pèger
  • pèggre
  • pègrre
  • pèrge
  • èpgre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pègre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

pegre1pgère2ppègre1pèger2pèggre1pègrre1pèrge2èpgre2
Edit distance from "pègre"

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 "pègre"?
"pègre" is spelled P-È-G-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛɡʁ\.
What does "pègre" mean?
As a noun, "pègre" means: Catégorie des gens sans aveu qui vivent de friponnerie ou d’escroquerie.
What words are commonly confused with "pègre"?
"pègre" is commonly confused with "pré", "père", "peur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pègre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pègre" is \pɛɡʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pègre" come from?
"pègre" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Recep#41,999prize#41,972pilar#41,959ormes#41,944

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

ravoir8 variantsreason8 variantspriait8 variantsporeux8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list