pétrolier
\pe.tʁɔ.lje\
The verdict
“pétrolier” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,339. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,339
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Navire-citerne conçu pour le transport en vrac de pétrole et des produits pétroliers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petrolier · pétrolier · French
pétrolier · rank #14,339 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,339
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH punis
Nearest frequency peer: punis (-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 « pétrolier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prédateurs
prédateurs
85,665 corpus weight
- puisses
puisses
85,664 corpus weight
- punis
punis
85,663 corpus weight
- pétrolier
pétrolier
85,662 corpus weight
- QG
QG
85,661 corpus weight
- raccourci
raccourci
85,660 corpus weight
What this shows « pétrolier » 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 | pétrolier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.tʁɔ.lje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pétrolier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around pétrolier (IPA \pe.tʁɔ.lje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,339 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for pétrolier, with forms such as "petrolier", "ppétrolier", and "ptérolier". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "pétrolière", "pétroliers", "pétrolières", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pétrolier, spelled P-É-T-R-O-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Navire-citerne conçu pour le transport en vrac de pétrole et des produits pétroliers.
- 2Industriel ou financier des sociétés pétrolières.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pétrolier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pétrolier transporte de l’essence, le gazier est rempli de gaz, et le chimiquier voyage avec des produits chimiques dans ses réservoirs.
Si les pétroliers transportaient de l’eau de mer, on s’en foutrait qu’ils fassent naufrage.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- petrolier
- ppétrolier
- ptérolier
- pértolier
- pétorlier
- pétrloier
- pétroiler
- pétroleir
- pétrolierr
- pétrolire
- pétrollier
- pétrrolier
- péttrolier
- éptrolier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pétrolier - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).