peignait
\pe.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“peignait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,707. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,707
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de peigner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peignait · peignait · French
peignait · rank #48,707 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,707
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passagères
Nearest frequency peer: passagères (-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 « peignait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parias
parias
51,297 corpus weight
- pasque
pasque
51,296 corpus weight
- passagères
passagères
51,295 corpus weight
- peignait
peignait
51,294 corpus weight
- peler
peler
51,293 corpus weight
- pelotons
pelotons
51,292 corpus weight
What this shows « peignait » 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 | peignait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « peignait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around peignait (IPA \pe.ɲɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,707 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de peigner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for peignait, with forms such as "epignait", "peginait", and "peiganit". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "poignant", "peignoir", "peignant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is peignait, spelled P-E-I-G-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de peigner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how peignait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lambert, enfant de six ans, couché dans un grand berceau, près du lit maternel, mais n’y dormant pas toujours, vit quelques étincelles électriques jaillissant de la chevelure de sa mère, au moment où elle se peignait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epignait
- peginait
- peiganit
- peiggnait
- peignaitt
- peignati
- peigniat
- peignnait
- peingait
- piegnait
- ppeignait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of peignait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "peignait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).