pics
\pik\
The verdict
“pics” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,441. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,441
- 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 pic.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pics · pics · French
pics · rank #12,441 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,441
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pigeons
Nearest frequency peer: pigeons (+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 « pics »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- permettez
permettez
87,563 corpus weight
- perçoit
perçoit
87,562 corpus weight
- pics
pics
87,560 corpus weight
- pigeons
pigeons
87,559 corpus weight
- placements
placements
87,558 corpus weight
- plaira
plaira
87,557 corpus weight
What this shows « pics » 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 | pics |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pik\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pics »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around pics (IPA \pik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,441 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pics, with forms such as "ipcs", "pcis", and "piccs". 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, "PS", "pis", "pie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pics, spelled P-I-C-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pic.
- 2Sommets pointus de montagnes dans les armoiries. Ce terme sert dans le blasonnement à indiquer le nombre d’éléments à utiliser pour la représentation d’un relief. On ne le voit donc jamais au singulier. À rapprocher de coupeaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pics appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du temps de Montaigne, les Sorbonnards, saturés de mémoire jusqu’à la gueule, rassottés par leur tête bien pleine, manquèrent la Renaissance, accrochés aux pics du Moyen Âge, sous les éclats de rire de Rabelais.
Parti : au 1ᵉʳ de sinople au mouton paissant d'argent, au 2ᵉ d'or au dauphin d'azur, crêté, barbé, lorré, peautré et oreillé de gueules ; au chef d'azur à la montagne de sept pics d'argent, chargée de l'inscription « Champoléon » en lettres de sable. → voir illustration « armoiries avec 7 pics »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipcs
- pcis
- piccs
- picss
- pisc
- ppics
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pics - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pics", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).