pets
\pɛ\
The verdict
“pets” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,078. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,078
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pets · pets · French
pets · rank #29,078 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,078
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH persistantes
Nearest frequency peer: persistantes (-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 « pets »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pereira
pereira
70,926 corpus weight
- perpétré
perpétré
70,925 corpus weight
- persistantes
persistantes
70,924 corpus weight
- pets
pets
70,923 corpus weight
- pieuse
pieuse
70,922 corpus weight
- pincée
pincée
70,921 corpus weight
What this shows « pets » 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 | pets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pets »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around pets (IPA \pɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,078 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pets, with forms such as "epts", "pest", and "petss". 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, "PS", "Pt", "peu", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pets, spelled P-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pet.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epts
- pest
- petss
- petts
- ppets
- ptes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pets - 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
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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).