pelles
\pɛl\
The verdict
“pelles” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,073. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,073
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pelles · pelles · French
pelles · rank #29,073 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,073
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peinent
Nearest frequency peer: peinent (-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 « pelles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- payaient
payaient
70,931 corpus weight
- Peillon
Peillon
70,930 corpus weight
- peinent
peinent
70,929 corpus weight
- pelles
pelles
70,928 corpus weight
- pereira
pereira
70,926 corpus weight
- perpétré
perpétré
70,925 corpus weight
What this shows « pelles » 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 | pelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pelles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around pelles (IPA \pɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,073 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pelle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pelles, with forms such as "eplles", "pelels", and "peles". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pères", "perle", "piles", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pelles, spelled P-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malheureusement, le choc du rouleau ébranle alors un énorme tas de casseroles, et les fait dégringoler sur M. Martin : les casseroles, en dégringolant, font dégringoler le tas des lèchefrites ; les lèchefrites, les vieux fusils ; les vieux fusils, les vieilles rouillardes ; les rouillardes, les broches à rôti ; les broches à rôti, les pincettes, les pelle…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eplles
- pelels
- peles
- pelless
- pellse
- pleles
- ppelles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pelles - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).