pigiste
\pi.ʒist\
The verdict
“pigiste” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,452. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,452
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne, en particulier journaliste, qui fait des piges, qui est payé à la pige.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pigiste · pigiste · French
pigiste · rank #41,452 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,452
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH photosynthèse
Nearest frequency peer: photosynthèse (-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 « pigiste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- peupliers
peupliers
58,551 corpus weight
- photosynthè…
photosynthèse
58,550 corpus weight
- pigiste
pigiste
58,549 corpus weight
- Pirée
Pirée
58,548 corpus weight
- pister
pister
58,547 corpus weight
- piégées
piégées
58,546 corpus weight
What this shows « pigiste » 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 | pigiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ʒist\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pigiste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pigiste (IPA \pi.ʒist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,452 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne, en particulier journaliste, qui fait des piges, qui est payé à la pige.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pigiste, with forms such as "ipgiste", "pgiiste", and "piggiste". 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, "piste", "pianiste", 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pigiste, spelled P-I-G-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne, en particulier journaliste, qui fait des piges, qui est payé à la pige.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pigiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme autres pigistes, il y avait Jean-Joël, que je trouvais un pipoteur de première, je n'arrivais même pas à comprendre comment les gens pouvaient acheter ses bobards […].
On assiste à l'apparition de contractuels travaillant à forfait qu'on a appelé « pigistes ». Ce néologisme est dérivé du mot « pige » qui, en typographie, désigne la longueur d'une page, d'une colonne et sert à fixer la rémunération des typographes et, par extension, celle des journalistes, rédacteurs ou traducteurs.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipgiste
- pgiiste
- piggiste
- pigiset
- pigisste
- pigistte
- pigitse
- pigsite
- piigste
- ppigiste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pigiste - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pigiste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).