piercing
\pɛʁ.siŋ\
The verdict
“piercing” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,306. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,306
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pratique qui consiste à percer une partie du corps pour y mettre un bijou (anneau, prince Albert, etc.)
Corpus desk
Index FR-piercing · piercing · French
piercing · rank #30,306 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #30,306
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH philippine
Nearest frequency peer: philippine (-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 « piercing »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perpétrés
perpétrés
69,698 corpus weight
- peuplent
peuplent
69,697 corpus weight
- philippine
philippine
69,696 corpus weight
- piercing
piercing
69,695 corpus weight
- plaidoirie
plaidoirie
69,694 corpus weight
- pollué
pollué
69,693 corpus weight
What this shows « piercing » 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 | piercing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.siŋ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « piercing »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around piercing (IPA \pɛʁ.siŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,306 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for piercing, with forms such as "ipercing", "peircing", and "piecring". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "piercings", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is piercing, spelled P-I-E-R-C-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Pratique qui consiste à percer une partie du corps pour y mettre un bijou (anneau, prince Albert, etc.)
- 2Bijou utilisé dans le cadre de cette pratique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piercing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les années 1970, le piercing a gagné en popularité dans la culture gay et BDSM.
Que pensez-vous de l'éventuelle émergence d'un néopaganisme que l'on pourrait qualifier d’archéo-futuriste : soirée rave, musique techno, marquages physiques néotribaux comme les tatouages ou les piercings, etc. ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipercing
- peircing
- piecring
- pierccing
- piercign
- piercingg
- piercinng
- piercnig
- piericng
- pierrcing
- pirecing
- ppiercing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piercing - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).