piaf
\pjaf\
The verdict
“piaf” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,974. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,974
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appellation populaire des moineaux, ou d’autres petits oiseaux mal identifiés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piaf · piaf · French
piaf · rank #22,974 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,974
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pia
Nearest frequency peer: pia (-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 « piaf »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- performante
performante
77,030 corpus weight
- perturbateu…
perturbateurs
77,029 corpus weight
- pia
pia
77,028 corpus weight
- piaf
piaf
77,027 corpus weight
- pillages
pillages
77,026 corpus weight
- plongeurs
plongeurs
77,024 corpus weight
What this shows « piaf » 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 | piaf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjaf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « piaf »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around piaf (IPA \pjaf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,974 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for piaf, with forms such as "ipaf", "paif", and "piaff". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pis", "PIB", "pic", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is piaf, spelled P-I-A-F.
Definition
- 1Appellation populaire des moineaux, ou d’autres petits oiseaux mal identifiés.
- 2Élève venant de région parisienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piaf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au retour, nous allons déranger un piaf femelle noir et blanc à long bec rouge couvant trois œufs ressemblant à ceux des mouettes. Cris stridents.
Un piaf curieux était déjà venu aux nouvelles. Posé sur la rambarde du balcon, il avait jeté un regard exploratoire dans la pièce. Constatant que ni les miettes de croissant, ni le fond de jus d'orange n'étaient au rendez-vous, il s'était envolé en piaillant de dépit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipaf
- paif
- piaff
- pifa
- ppiaf
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piaf - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).