pieds

\pje\

/\pje\/ noun

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The verdict

“pieds” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,006. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,006
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pied.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pieds · pieds · French

pieds · rank #1,006 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,006
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH parole

Nearest frequency peer: parole (-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 « pieds »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pieds » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pieds vs pis
60% similar
pieds vs près
40% similar
pieds vs pins
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pieds
PropertyValue
Headwordpieds
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pje\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,006
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pieds »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).piedsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « parole » (#1,005), « principe » (#1,007), « Lyon » (#1,004). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pieds » est au #1,006. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around pieds (IPA \pje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,006 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pied.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pieds, with forms such as "ipeds", "peids", and "pides". 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, "pis", "près", "pins", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pieds, spelled P-I-E-D-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de pied.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pieds appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Leste, menue, elle trottinait, les pieds enfouis dans des chaussons.
  2. Ce n’est pas pour mendier son pain au prix de son amour qu’Élisa Merton se traînait à tes pieds.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ipeds
  • peids
  • pides
  • piedds
  • piedss
  • piesd
  • ppieds

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pieds - 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.

ipeds2peids2pides2piedds1piedss1piesd2ppieds1
Edit distance from "pieds"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pieds"?
"pieds" is spelled P-I-E-D-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pje\.
What does "pieds" mean?
As a noun, "pieds" means: Pluriel de pied.
What words are commonly confused with "pieds"?
"pieds" is commonly confused with "pis", "près", "pins". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pieds"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pieds" is \pje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pieds" come from?
"pieds" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pieds", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

arrivé7 variantsarrêté7 variantsunique7 variantscommun7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list