peng
\pɛŋ\
The verdict
“peng” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,514. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,514
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bang, coup de fusil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peng · peng · French
peng · rank #42,514 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,514
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH penderie
Nearest frequency peer: penderie (-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 « peng »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pastiche
pastiche
57,491 corpus weight
- patrouiller
patrouiller
57,490 corpus weight
- penderie
penderie
57,488 corpus weight
- peng
peng
57,487 corpus weight
- perdirent
perdirent
57,485 corpus weight
- perdurent
perdurent
57,484 corpus weight
What this shows « peng » 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 | peng |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \pɛŋ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « peng »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around peng (IPA \pɛŋ\), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #42,514 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bang, coup de fusil.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for peng, with forms such as "epng", "pegn", and "pengg". 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, "PG", "PN", "peu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is peng, spelled P-E-N-G.
Definition
- 1Bang, coup de fusil.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epng
- pegn
- pengg
- penng
- pneg
- ppeng
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of peng - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "peng", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).