pierce

\piʁs\

/\piʁs\/ verb

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The verdict

“pierce” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,235. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,235
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe piercer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pierce · pierce · French

pierce · rank #20,235 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,235
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH physiologique

Nearest frequency peer: physiologique (-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 « pierce »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « pierce » 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).

pierce vs pire
67% similar
pierce vs piété
33% similar
pierce vs pitre
67% similar

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

Key facts for pierce
PropertyValue
Headwordpierce
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\piʁs\
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,235
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pierce »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).piercese 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 « physiologique » (#20,234), « pioche » (#20,236), « pharmacies » (#20,233). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pierce » est au #20,235. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around pierce (IPA \piʁs\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,235 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pierce, with forms such as "iperce", "peirce", and "piecre". 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, "pire", "piété", "pitre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pierce, spelled P-I-E-R-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe piercer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe piercer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe piercer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe piercer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe piercer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • iperce
  • peirce
  • piecre
  • piercce
  • pierec
  • pierrce
  • pirece
  • ppierce

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

iperce2peirce2piecre2piercce1pierec2pierrce1pirece2ppierce1
Edit distance from "pierce"

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 "pierce"?
"pierce" is spelled P-I-E-R-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \piʁs\.
What does "pierce" mean?
As a verb, "pierce" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe piercer.
What words are commonly confused with "pierce"?
"pierce" is commonly confused with "pire", "piété", "pitre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pierce"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pierce" is \piʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pierce" come from?
"pierce" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pioche#20,236patois#20,230potion#20,243onglet#20,219

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

noyade8 variantsNevada8 variantsnausée8 variantsnageur8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list