pieu
\pjø\
The verdict
“pieu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,470) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,470
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce de bois qui est pointue par un des bouts et qu’on emploie à divers usages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pieu · pieu · French
pieu · rank #26,470 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,470
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH phénoménal
Nearest frequency peer: phénoménal (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « pieu »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- perrier
perrier
73,534 corpus weight
- pff
pff
73,533 corpus weight
- phénoménal
phénoménal
73,532 corpus weight
- pieu
pieu
73,531 corpus weight
- piquent
piquent
73,530 corpus weight
- piquée
piquée
73,529 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « pieu » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | pieu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pjø\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pieu »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pieu is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "pré", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pjø\. Frequency #26,470 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for pieu, with forms such as "ipeu", "peiu", and "piue". 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, "pu", "pré", "pis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pieu, spelled P-I-E-U.
Definition
- 1Pièce de bois qui est pointue par un des bouts et qu’on emploie à divers usages.
- 2Pénis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pieu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que de crimes, de guerres, de meurtres, que de misères et d’horreurs n’eût point épargnés au genre humain celui qui, arrachant les pieux ou comblant le fossé, eût crié à ses semblables : Gardez-vous d’écouter cet imposteur ; vous êtes perdus, si vous oubliez que les fruits sont à tous, et que la terre n’est à personne !
Lorsque, par l’effet de l’enfoncement du pieu, sa tête est parvenue un peu au-dessous du pied de la sonnette, le mouton ne peut plus l’atteindre , et alors on ne peut continuer le battage que par le moyen d’un faux pieu.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipeu
- peiu
- piue
- ppieu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pieu - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).