piéger
\pje.ʒe\
The verdict
“piéger” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,105. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,105
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attraper dans un piège.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pieger · piéger · French
piéger · rank #19,105 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,105
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pirater
Nearest frequency peer: pirater (-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 « piéger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Phillips
Phillips
80,899 corpus weight
- piller
piller
80,898 corpus weight
- pirater
pirater
80,897 corpus weight
- piéger
piéger
80,896 corpus weight
- Piémont
Piémont
80,895 corpus weight
- pleurent
pleurent
80,894 corpus weight
What this shows « piéger » 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 | piéger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pje.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « piéger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around piéger (IPA \pje.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,105 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for piéger, with forms such as "ipéger", "pieger", and "pigéer". 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, "pige", "Pier", "piges", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 piéger, spelled P-I-É-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Attraper dans un piège.
- 2Munir (un objet, un lieu) d’un dispositif destiné à atteindre les entités qui y accéderont.
- 3(En parlant de particules chargées) Attirer, contraindre dans un champ magnétique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piéger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous nous sommes fait piéger.
Les péages à flux libre, en développement en France, piègent toujours de nombreux automobilistes. Une mauvaise nouvelle pour ces derniers, contraints de payer de lourdes amendes à cause d'un manque de connaissances ou d'erreurs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipéger
- pieger
- pigéer
- piéegr
- piégerr
- piégger
- piégre
- ppiéger
- péiger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piéger - 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 "piéger", 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).