pétard
\pe.taʁ\
The verdict
“pétard” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,055. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,055
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expression de surprise, d’étonnement, de stupéfaction ; putain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petard · pétard · French
pétard · rank #22,055 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,055
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH péages
Nearest frequency peer: péages (-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 « pétard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Putsch
Putsch
77,949 corpus weight
- pèlerin
pèlerin
77,948 corpus weight
- péages
péages
77,947 corpus weight
- pétard
pétard
77,946 corpus weight
- racailles
racailles
77,945 corpus weight
- rai
rai
77,944 corpus weight
What this shows « pétard » 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 | pétard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \pe.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pétard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pétard (IPA \pe.taʁ\), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #22,055 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Expression de surprise, d’étonnement, de stupéfaction ; putain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pétard, with forms such as "petard", "ppétard", and "ptéard". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Petr", "péter", "petra", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pétard, spelled P-É-T-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Expression de surprise, d’étonnement, de stupéfaction ; putain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pétard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un coup de bagne pour vingt-cinq ans ça nous dresserait à tous le cul ! Sacredieu pétard ! Ah ! il nous aimait pas la tante !
Pétard! On m’a volé! Même Jolly Jumper!!!
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- petard
- ppétard
- ptéard
- péatrd
- pétadr
- pétardd
- pétarrd
- pétrad
- péttard
- éptard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pétard - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).