pimenter
\pi.mɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“pimenter” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,276. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,276
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assaisonner avec des piments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pimenter · pimenter · French
pimenter · rank #49,276 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,276
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pillée
Nearest frequency peer: pillée (-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 « pimenter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- phonétiques
phonétiques
50,729 corpus weight
- Pierrefitte
Pierrefitte
50,728 corpus weight
- pillée
pillée
50,726 corpus weight
- pimenter
pimenter
50,725 corpus weight
- pio
pio
50,724 corpus weight
- pivots
pivots
50,723 corpus weight
What this shows « pimenter » 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 | pimenter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pi.mɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pimenter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pimenter (IPA \pi.mɑ̃.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,276 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pimenter, with forms such as "ipmenter", "piemnter", and "pimenetr". 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, "piments", "piment", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pimenter, spelled P-I-M-E-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Assaisonner avec des piments.
- 2Assaisonner de plaisanteries risquées, de propos ou d’actes grivois.
- 3Assaisonner avec une touche d’originalité, de gaité ou de charme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pimenter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cuisinière a l’habitude désagréable de pimenter ses plats à outrance.
C’était sûrement ce Diable-là qui, dans un accès de folie, avait créé la Rosalba, pour se faire le plaisir… du Diable, de fricasser, l’une après l’autre, la volupté dans la pudeur et la pudeur dans la volupté, et de pimenter, avec un condiment céleste, le ragoût infernal des jouissances qu’une femme puisse donner à des hommes mortels.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipmenter
- piemnter
- pimenetr
- pimennter
- pimenterr
- pimentre
- pimentter
- pimetner
- pimmenter
- pimneter
- pmienter
- ppimenter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pimenter - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).