peigne
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,363
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
peigne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument de buis, de corne, d’ivoire, de plastique, etc., qui est taillé en forme de dents et qui sert à démêler et à arranger les cheveux et la barbe. Pronounced \pɛɲ\. Often confused with pige and pine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peigne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛɲ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for peigne is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛɲ\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,363 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for peigne, with forms such as "epigne", "pegine", and "peigen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "pige", "pine", "peine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is peigne, spelled P-E-I-G-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument de buis, de corne, d’ivoire, de plastique, etc., qui est taillé en forme de dents et qui sert à démêler et à arranger les cheveux et la barbe.
- 2Le même ustensile pour peigner les animaux.
- 3Ce même objet courbe à longues dents, dont les femmes se servent pour retenir leurs cheveux ou seulement pour orner leur coiffure.
- 4Dans un métier à tisser, élément ressemblant à un grand peigne à cheveux et permettant la distribution des fils de chaîne et le tassage du fil de trame après chaque passage de navette.
- 5Instrument de fer dont se servaient les cardeurs pour apprêter la laine, le chanvre, le lin, etc.
- 6Appareil pour peigner les fibres des tissus naturels.
- 7Genre de mollusques acéphale à coquille bivalve, dont certaines espèces, comme la coquille Saint-Jacques, sont comestibles.
- 8Accessoire de raccordement simplifiant généralement le câblage électrique de plusieurs composants d’encombrements similaires.
- 9Nom donné par analogie de forme à diverses parties anatomiques de certains animaux.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epigne,pegine,peigen,peiggne,peignne,peinge,piegne,ppeigne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for peigne
Misspelling Variants of "peigne"
Frequency rank: #19,363 in French
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