ping
\piŋ\
The verdict
“ping” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,214. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,214
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ping · ping · French
ping · rank #9,214 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,214
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perdues
Nearest frequency peer: perdues (-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 « ping »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pass
pass
90,790 corpus weight
- patriotes
patriotes
90,789 corpus weight
- perdues
perdues
90,788 corpus weight
- ping
ping
90,787 corpus weight
- plier
plier
90,786 corpus weight
- poison
poison
90,785 corpus weight
What this shows « ping » 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 | ping |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \piŋ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ping »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around ping (IPA \piŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,214 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ping, with forms such as "ipng", "pign", and "pingg". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PN", "pis", "PSG", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 ping, spelled P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée.
- 2Ping-pong (sport).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ping appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Surpris, Ferdinand laissa échapper la boîte qui atterrit avec un CLONG assourdissant. Léon, qui dormait, lança un COUAC effrayé. Mais la boucle, elle, rebondit légèrement sur le sol avec un PING délicat.
Le patron du ping en France ne peut toutefois cacher son excitation.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipng
- pign
- pingg
- pinng
- pnig
- pping
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ping - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).