pinot
\pi.no\
The verdict
“pinot” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,366. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,366
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à diverses espèces de cépages. En ce qui concerne les cépages autorisés en France il y a le pinot meunier, le pinot blanc, le pinot gris et le pinot noir. En tant que nom officiel on trou...
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Index FR-pinot · pinot · French
pinot · rank #19,366 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,366
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perçoivent
Nearest frequency peer: perçoivent (-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 « pinot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- peigne
peigne
80,638 corpus weight
- peintes
peintes
80,637 corpus weight
- perçoivent
perçoivent
80,636 corpus weight
- pinot
pinot
80,635 corpus weight
- plaignant
plaignant
80,634 corpus weight
- planer
planer
80,633 corpus weight
What this shows « pinot » 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 | pinot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.no\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pinot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around pinot (IPA \pi.no\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,366 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for pinot, with forms such as "ipnot", "pinnot", and "pinott". 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, "pot", "pit", "pio", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pinot, spelled P-I-N-O-T.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à diverses espèces de cépages. En ce qui concerne les cépages autorisés en France il y a le pinot meunier, le pinot blanc, le pinot gris et le pinot noir. En tant que nom officiel on trouve en outre : pinot cioutat, pinot noir renevey, pinot arcenan, pinot carmot, pinot contaillod, pinot crepet, pinot violet, pinot d'Ervelon, pinot de Coulanges, pinot maltais, pinot de Saint-Jean, pinot de Trépail, pinot du Valais, pinot teinturier, pinot Geoffroy, pinot longuet, pinot liébault, pinot précoce noir, pinot musqué, pinot tête de nègre, pinot salomon, pinot régina et pinot laurent qui sont toutes des espèces à part entière. Il existe, en outre, une grande quantité de cépages nommés pinot qui sont en fait le synonyme d'une autre espèce : pinot vache (mondeuse noire), pinot saint-Georges, pinot aigret (pinot cioutat mais aussi rufette cépage portugais), pinot blanc précoce (auxerrois), pinot d'Ailly (beau noir), pinot d'Evora (carignan), pinot d'Orléans (beaunoir), etc.
- 2Vin issu de ces cépages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pinot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pinots noir et blanc entrent dans de grands crus de Bourgogne et de Champagne, le pinot gris était aussi nommé tokay en Alsace, la dénomination "tokay" a été abandonnée par respect de la réglementation sur les dénominations d’appellations d'origines contrôlées".
Elle nous a servi un délicieux lapin au pinot rouge.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipnot
- pinnot
- pinott
- pniot
- ppinot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pinot - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).