pètes
\pɛt\
The verdict
“pètes” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,737. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,737
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petes · pètes · French
pètes · rank #48,737 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,737
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préparera
Nearest frequency peer: préparera (-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 « pètes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prude
prude
51,267 corpus weight
- préféreraie…
préféreraient
51,266 corpus weight
- préparera
préparera
51,265 corpus weight
- pètes
pètes
51,264 corpus weight
- pécule
pécule
51,263 corpus weight
- Pétrarque
Pétrarque
51,262 corpus weight
What this shows « pètes » 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 | pètes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pètes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pètes (IPA \pɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,737 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pète.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pètes, with forms such as "petes", "ppètes", and "ptèes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pts", "près", "pote", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pètes, spelled P-È-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pète.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- petes
- ppètes
- ptèes
- pèets
- pètess
- pètse
- pèttes
- èptes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pètes - 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 "pètes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).