peindre
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,607
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
peindre is aFrenchverb. It means: Enduire ou couvrir de peinture, de couleur ou de pigments. Pronounced \pɛ̃dʁ\. It ranks #7,607 in French word frequency. Often confused with peine and perdre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peindre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for peindre is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,607 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for peindre, with forms such as "epindre", "peidnre", and "peinddre". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "peine", "perdre", "pendre", 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 peindre, spelled P-E-I-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enduire ou couvrir de peinture, de couleur ou de pigments.
- 2Représenter une personne ou une chose, par des lignes et par des couleurs.
- 3Décrire, représenter quelque chose par des mots qui font image.
- 4Se traduire, se manifester.
- 5Représenter ses pensées, son style pour faire connaître son caractère et ses inclinations.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epindre,peidnre,peinddre,peinder,peindrre,peinndre,peinrde,penidre,piendre,ppeindre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for peindre
Misspelling Variants of "peindre"
Frequency rank: #7,607 in French
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