Peillon

name

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The verdict

“Peillon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,071. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,071
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-peillon · Peillon · French

Peillon · rank #29,071 · 8 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,071
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH payaient

Nearest frequency peer: payaient (-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 « Peillon »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Peillon » 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).

Peillon vs pilon
57% similar
Peillon vs pavillon
63% similar
Peillon vs papillon
63% similar

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

Key facts for Peillon
PropertyValue
HeadwordPeillon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#29,071
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Peillon »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Peillonse 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 « payaient » (#29,070), « peinent » (#29,072), « pelles » (#29,073). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Peillon » est au #29,071. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Peillon, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,071 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Peillon, with forms such as "epillon", "peillno", and "peillonn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pilon", "pavillon", "papillon", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Peillon, spelled P-E-I-L-L-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Les lauréats du prix littéraire de Saint-Cloud et du Prix Coup de cœur du Salon des auteurs clodoaldiens 2022 étaient interviewés par Pierre-Édouard Peillon, critique littéraire.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • epillon
  • peillno
  • peillonn
  • peiloln
  • peilon
  • pelilon
  • piellon
  • ppeillon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Peillon - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

epillon2peillno2peillonn1peiloln2peilon1pelilon2piellon2ppeillon1
Edit distance from "Peillon"

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 "Peillon"?
"Peillon" is spelled P-E-I-L-L-O-N.
What does "Peillon" mean?
As a proper noun, "Peillon" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Peillon"?
"Peillon" is commonly confused with "pilon", "pavillon", "papillon". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Peillon" come from?
"Peillon" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

peinent#29,072pereira#29,075ombrage#29,064polluer#29,084

Similar misspelling depth

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

Nikola8 variantsprouesse8 variantsmilano8 variantsreboot8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list