picoler
\pi.kɔ.le\
The verdict
“picoler” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,971. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,971
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boire des boissons alcooliques (transitif).
Corpus desk
Index FR-picoler · picoler · French
picoler · rank #37,971 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,971
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH photographiée
Nearest frequency peer: photographiée (-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 « picoler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pendants
pendants
62,033 corpus weight
- permaculture
permaculture
62,032 corpus weight
- photographi…
photographiée
62,031 corpus weight
- picoler
picoler
62,030 corpus weight
- pilori
pilori
62,029 corpus weight
- plugin
plugin
62,028 corpus weight
What this shows « picoler » 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 | picoler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pi.kɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « picoler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around picoler (IPA \pi.kɔ.le\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,971 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for picoler, with forms such as "ipcoler", "pcioler", and "piccoler". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "piller", "piloter", "pivoter", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is picoler, spelled P-I-C-O-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Boire des boissons alcooliques (transitif).
- 2Consommer de l’alcool régulièrement et excessivement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how picoler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On se marre comme des fous en jouant à chat, chat perché, et même chat-bite quand on a un peu trop picolé.
Alors, que voulez-vous qu’ils fassent ? Qu’ils beuvaillent, fricotent, baffrent, fument la pipe, chantent, dansent, cavalcadent, boustifaillent, tortillent, goinfrent ou pignochent, boulottent, buvotent, lichent, picolent, chopinent, trinquent et qu’ils rotent et qu’ils cuvent ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipcoler
- pcioler
- piccoler
- picloer
- picoelr
- picolerr
- picoller
- picolre
- piocler
- ppicoler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of picoler - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).