pinceau
\pɛ̃.so\
The verdict
“pinceau” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,757. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,757
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument pour peindre, appliquer et étendre des couleurs, du vernis, etc., et qui consiste en un assemblage de poils attaché à l’extrémité d’une hampe, ou retenu au bout d’un tuyau de plume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pinceau · pinceau · French
pinceau · rank #14,757 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,757
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pendu
Nearest frequency peer: pendu (-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 « pinceau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- passionnée
passionnée
85,248 corpus weight
- pavés
pavés
85,247 corpus weight
- peints
peints
85,246 corpus weight
- pendu
pendu
85,245 corpus weight
- pinceau
pinceau
85,244 corpus weight
- plaisance
plaisance
85,241 corpus weight
What this shows « pinceau » 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 | pinceau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃.so\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pinceau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pinceau (IPA \pɛ̃.so\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,757 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pinceau, with forms such as "ipnceau", "picneau", and "pincaeu". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "puceau", "pincée", "pincer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pinceau, spelled P-I-N-C-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Instrument pour peindre, appliquer et étendre des couleurs, du vernis, etc., et qui consiste en un assemblage de poils attaché à l’extrémité d’une hampe, ou retenu au bout d’un tuyau de plume.
- 2Caractère de ce qui ressemble à un pinceau.
- 3Art de peindre.
- 4Manière de peindre.
- 5Faisceau de lumière.
- 6Pied.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pinceau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vieillard appartenait aux modèles affectionnés par les mâles pinceaux de Schnetz ; c’était un visage brun dont les rides nombreuses paraissaient rudes au toucher, un nez droit, des pommettes saillantes et veinées de rouge comme une vieille feuille de vigne, de contours anguleux, tous les caractères de la force, même là où la force avait disparu ; ses m…
Un régiment d’ouvriers et pas mal de jeunes apprentis colorent les images au pochoir. Armés d’un formidable pinceau, de forme spéciale, ils trempent d’un mouvement rythmé dans un pot de couleur pour le passer sur le patron.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipnceau
- picneau
- pincaeu
- pincceau
- pinceua
- pinecau
- pinnceau
- pniceau
- ppinceau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pinceau - 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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