pink
The verdict
“pink” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,864
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pinque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pink · pink · French
pink · rank #13,864 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,864
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piloter
Nearest frequency peer: piloter (-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 « pink »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pe
pe
86,140 corpus weight
- perturber
perturber
86,139 corpus weight
- piloter
piloter
86,138 corpus weight
- pink
pink
86,137 corpus weight
- plais
plais
86,136 corpus weight
- podcast
podcast
86,135 corpus weight
What this shows « pink » 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 | pink |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pink »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around pink, anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,864 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 pink, with forms such as "ipnk", "pikn", and "pinkk". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PK", "PN", "pis", and more, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pink, spelled P-I-N-K.
Definition
- 1Pinque.
- 2Bateau de pêche à voile utilisé sur les côtes hollandaises et d'Amérique du nord. Il grée un foc, une trinquette et une brigantine bômée. Nommé aussi pink-pinkje.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pink appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1774, il y hivernait 6 vaisseaux de 60 canons, 4 frégates de 36, 3 pinks et 14 autres petits navires.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipnk
- pikn
- pinkk
- pinnk
- pnik
- ppink
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pink - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pink", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).