Pier
\pjɛʁ\
The verdict
“Pier” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,372) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,372
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pier · Pier · French
Pier · rank #22,372 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,372
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH placez
Nearest frequency peer: placez (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Pier »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- perdrait
perdrait
77,632 corpus weight
- peuplement
peuplement
77,631 corpus weight
- Pier
Pier
77,629 corpus weight
- placez
placez
77,628 corpus weight
- plaquettes
plaquettes
77,627 corpus weight
- polarisation
polarisation
77,626 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Pier » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Pier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Pier »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Pier is neighbouring look-alikes ("Pr", "pré", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \pjɛʁ\. Frequency #22,372 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pier, with forms such as "iper", "peir", and "pierr". 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, "Pr", "pré", "pur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Pier, spelled P-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iper
- peir
- pierr
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pier - 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 "Pier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).