péniche
\pe.niʃ\
The verdict
“péniche” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,139. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,139
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bateau à fond plat destiné essentiellement aux transports par fleuves et canaux. Très longues, elles vont parfois par convois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peniche · péniche · French
péniche · rank #32,139 · 11 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,139
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pénalise
Nearest frequency peer: pénalise (-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 « péniche »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- punta
punta
67,865 corpus weight
- pâtés
pâtés
67,864 corpus weight
- pénalise
pénalise
67,863 corpus weight
- péniche
péniche
67,862 corpus weight
- pérenniser
pérenniser
67,861 corpus weight
- QCM
QCM
67,860 corpus weight
What this shows « péniche » 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 | péniche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.niʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « péniche »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around péniche (IPA \pe.niʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,139 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for péniche, with forms such as "peniche", "pnéiche", and "ppéniche". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "perche", "pêche", "penche", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is péniche, spelled P-É-N-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Bateau à fond plat destiné essentiellement aux transports par fleuves et canaux. Très longues, elles vont parfois par convois.
- 2Chaussure un peu trop grande, dans laquelle on flotte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how péniche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils appréhendent le voyage à cent vingt dans la péniche, mais ils sont déterminés et ils se sont mis d’accord sur le fait que ce serait faisable, même s’ils vont être serrés.
Qu’on me rende mon Malcolm, sa voix grave, ses yeux bleus, ses péniches taille 44.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- peniche
- pnéiche
- ppéniche
- péinche
- péncihe
- pénicche
- péniceh
- pénichhe
- pénihce
- pénniche
- épniche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of péniche - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).