piétonne

\pje.tɔn\

/\pje.tɔn\/ noun

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The verdict

“piétonne” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,077. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,077
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme piéton ou fille piétonne. Piéton de sexe féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pietonne · piétonne · French

piétonne · rank #25,077 · 10 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,077
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pit

Nearest frequency peer: pit (-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 « piétonne »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « piétonne » 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).

piétonne vs piétons
75% similar
piétonne vs piétonnes
89% similar
piétonne vs piétonnier
80% similar

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

Key facts for piétonne
PropertyValue
Headwordpiétonne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pje.tɔn\
Letters8
Frequency rank#25,077
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « piétonne »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.piétonnese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pit » (#25,076), « playboy » (#25,078), « piraterie » (#25,075). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « piétonne » est au #25,077. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around piétonne (IPA \pje.tɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,077 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme piéton ou fille piétonne. Piéton de sexe féminin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for piétonne, with forms such as "ipétonne", "pietonne", and "pitéonne". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "piétons", "piétonnes", "piétonnier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 piétonne, spelled P-I-É-T-O-N-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme piéton ou fille piétonne. Piéton de sexe féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how piétonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le conducteur au volant d'un véhicule qui a renversé une piétonne, X; demeurant à lllkirch-Graffenstaden, dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi, rue du Général Leclerc, à Strasbourg, il a échangé quelques mots avec la victime avant de prendre la fuite, […].
  2. Je ne dormais plus, ne m'alimentais plus, et me surprenais à soupçonner toutes les piétonnes foulant l'asphalte, en les imaginant dans les bras de Jonathan.

This word in other languages

Fußgängerin(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ipétonne
  • pietonne
  • pitéonne
  • piéotnne
  • piétnone
  • piétone
  • piétonen
  • piéttonne
  • ppiétonne
  • péitonne

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ipétonne2pietonne1pitéonne2piéotnne2piétnone2piétone1piétonen2piéttonne1
Edit distance from "piétonne"

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 "piétonne"?
"piétonne" is spelled P-I-É-T-O-N-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pje.tɔn\.
What does "piétonne" mean?
As a noun, "piétonne" means: Femme piéton ou fille piétonne. Piéton de sexe féminin.
What words are commonly confused with "piétonne"?
"piétonne" is commonly confused with "piétons", "piétonnes", "piétonnier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "piétonne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "piétonne" is \pje.tɔn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "piétonne" come from?
"piétonne" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list