pincement
\pɛ̃s.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“pincement” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,650. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,650
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de pincer ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pincement · pincement · French
pincement · rank #31,650 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,650
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piger
Nearest frequency peer: piger (-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 « pincement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pianos
pianos
68,353 corpus weight
- piger
piger
68,352 corpus weight
- pincement
pincement
68,351 corpus weight
- Pinocchio
Pinocchio
68,350 corpus weight
- Pinochet
Pinochet
68,349 corpus weight
- polygone
polygone
68,348 corpus weight
What this shows « pincement » 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 | pincement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃s.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pincement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around pincement (IPA \pɛ̃s.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,650 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for pincement, with forms such as "ipncement", "picnement", and "pinccement". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "placement", "pansement", "percement", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pincement, spelled P-I-N-C-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de pincer ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Opération qui consiste à couper le sommet d’un bourgeon.
- 3Parallélisme des roues sur l'axe longitudinal du véhicule.
- 4Mordant inférieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pincement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ajustage des parties frottantes demande des précautions, notamment celui des coussinets sur les arbres et essieux. On doit leur donner un peu de jeu, surtout à l’entrée, afin d’éviter le pincement qui se produirait si l’axe venait à chauffer et à se dilater. Ils doivent, par contre, être très-exactement retenus dans leur chape ou palier.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipncement
- picnement
- pinccement
- pinceemnt
- pincemennt
- pincementt
- pincemetn
- pincemment
- pincemnet
- pincmeent
- pinecment
- pinncement
- pnicement
- ppincement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pincement - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).