pierrette
\pjɛ.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“pierrette” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,456. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,456
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petite pierre. N’est plus guère usité que dans l’expression jouer à la pierrette (jeu d’enfants).
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 | pierrette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjɛ.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pierrette” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pierrette (IPA \pjɛ.ʁɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,456 among 248,534 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pierrette, with forms such as "iperrette", "peirrette", and "pierertte". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "permette", "Pierrefitte", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pierrette, spelled P-I-E-R-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite pierre. N’est plus guère usité que dans l’expression jouer à la pierrette (jeu d’enfants).
- 2Nom vulgaire de la femelle du moineau (genre Passer), plus spécialement du moineau domestique ou moineau franc (Passer domesticus Linnaeus, 1758).
- 3Épouse du pierrot (personnage de carnaval).
- 4Sorte de camisole blanche que les femmes portaient en négligé.
- 5Noyau de fruit.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iperrette
- peirrette
- pierertte
- pierette
- pierrete
- pierretet
- pierrtete
- pirerette
- ppierrette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pierrette - 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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Using “pierrette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-I-E-R-R-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pjɛ.ʁɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “permette” - see the side-by-side comparison. pierrette vs permette
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.