picard
\pi.kaʁ\
The verdict
“picard” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,552
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se rapporte à la Picardie ou aux Picards.
Corpus desk
Index FR-picard · picard · French
picard · rank #10,552 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,552
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pensaient
Nearest frequency peer: pensaient (-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 « picard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pavé
pavé
89,452 corpus weight
- Pedro
Pedro
89,451 corpus weight
- pensaient
pensaient
89,450 corpus weight
- picard
picard
89,449 corpus weight
- postale
postale
89,448 corpus weight
- privilégier
privilégier
89,447 corpus weight
What this shows « picard » 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 | picard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pi.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « picard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around picard (IPA \pi.kaʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,552 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for picard, with forms such as "ipcard", "pciard", and "piacrd". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "pilar", "pinard", "placard", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is picard, spelled P-I-C-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Qui se rapporte à la Picardie ou aux Picards.
- 2Relatif à une secte hussite installée jadis en Picardie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how picard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prosper Magnan fit venir quelques larmes dans les yeux du négociant fugitif, quand, avec cette franchise picarde et la naïveté d’une nature bonne et tendre, il supposa ce que devait faire sa mère au moment où il se trouvait, lui, sur les bords du Rhin.
Les deux familles dont je procède, l’une picarde et l’autre ardennaise, étaient originairement des familles de paysans.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipcard
- pciard
- piacrd
- picadr
- picardd
- picarrd
- piccard
- picrad
- ppicard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of picard - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "picard", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).