pelage
\pə.laʒ\
The verdict
“pelage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,177. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,177
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de poils recouvrant le corps d'un animal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pelage · pelage · French
pelage · rank #27,177 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,177
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paz
Nearest frequency peer: paz (-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 « pelage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Pavel
Pavel
72,827 corpus weight
- Payet
Payet
72,826 corpus weight
- paz
paz
72,825 corpus weight
- pelage
pelage
72,824 corpus weight
- pepper
pepper
72,823 corpus weight
- Peters
Peters
72,822 corpus weight
What this shows « pelage » 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 | pelage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pelage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pelage (IPA \pə.laʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,177 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble de poils recouvrant le corps d'un animal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pelage, with forms such as "eplage", "pealge", and "pelaeg". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "place", "plage", "plate", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pelage, spelled P-E-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de poils recouvrant le corps d'un animal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pelage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le castor fournit un pelage duveteux, très fin avec de longs poils brillants. C'est une matière textile de luxe qui vient de Sibérie ou du centre de l’Amérique.
Le Dr Marengo portait un manteau à col de castorette. Sa barbiche, soyeuse et unie, semblait un morceau de la même bête dont le pelage ornait son vêtement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eplage
- pealge
- pelaeg
- pelagge
- pelgae
- pellage
- pleage
- ppelage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pelage - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).