peine
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#483
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
peine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Punition, sanction ou châtiment infligé(e) pour une faute commise, pour un acte jugé répréhensible ou coupable, et en particulier punition pour une infraction à la loi et prononcée par un jugement. Pronounced \pɛn\. It ranks #483 in French word frequency. Often confused with pen and pie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for peine is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #483 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for peine, with forms such as "epine", "peien", and "peinne". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pen", "pie", "pin", 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 peine, spelled P-E-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Punition, sanction ou châtiment infligé(e) pour une faute commise, pour un acte jugé répréhensible ou coupable, et en particulier punition pour une infraction à la loi et prononcée par un jugement.
- 2Sanction de l’Église pour une faute morale.
- 3Châtiment après la mort pour expier ses péchés et ses fautes durant sa vie terrestre.
- 4Souffrance physique ou morale, sentiment de quelque mal dans le corps ou dans l’esprit.
- 5Douleur, affliction, chagrin, déplaisir.
- 6Souci, embarras.
- 7Travail ; fatigue ; effort qui coûte.
- 8Difficultés et obstacles que l’on trouve à quelque chose.
- 9Répugnance d’esprit qu’on a à dire ou à faire quelque chose.
- 10Salaire d’un artisan.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epine,peien,peinne,penie,piene,ppeine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for peine
Misspelling Variants of "peine"
Frequency rank: #483 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "peine"?
What does "peine" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "peine"?
How do you pronounce "peine"?
What language does "peine" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index: