piétiner
\pje.ti.ne\
The verdict
“piétiner” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,526. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,526
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remuer fréquemment et vivement les pieds, s’agiter sur place.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pietiner · piétiner · French
piétiner · rank #32,526 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,526
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pessimistes
Nearest frequency peer: pessimistes (-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 « piétiner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perdront
perdront
67,478 corpus weight
- pesos
pesos
67,477 corpus weight
- pessimistes
pessimistes
67,476 corpus weight
- piétiner
piétiner
67,475 corpus weight
- Platini
Platini
67,474 corpus weight
- pointée
pointée
67,473 corpus weight
What this shows « piétiner » 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 | piétiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pje.ti.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « piétiner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around piétiner (IPA \pje.ti.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,526 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for piétiner, with forms such as "ipétiner", "pietiner", and "pitéiner". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "patiner", "piétiné", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is piétiner, spelled P-I-É-T-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Remuer fréquemment et vivement les pieds, s’agiter sur place.
- 2Ne faire aucun progrès.
- 3Fouler avec les pieds.
- 4Bafouer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piétiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les chevaux, en piaffant, piétinèrent dans les flaques sanglantes. C'était le sacrifice de bienvenue.
[Titre] La réforme de la justice piétine à l’Assemblée
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipétiner
- pietiner
- pitéiner
- piéitner
- piétienr
- piétinerr
- piétinner
- piétinre
- piétnier
- piéttiner
- ppiétiner
- péitiner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piétiner - 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 "piétiner", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).