piquante
\pi.kɑ̃t\
The verdict
“piquante” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,835. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,835
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de piquant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piquante · piquante · French
piquante · rank #33,835 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,835
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piocher
Nearest frequency peer: piocher (-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 « piquante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Pikachu
Pikachu
66,169 corpus weight
- pinto
pinto
66,168 corpus weight
- piocher
piocher
66,167 corpus weight
- piquante
piquante
66,166 corpus weight
- plot
plot
66,165 corpus weight
- possédés
possédés
66,164 corpus weight
What this shows « piquante » 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 | piquante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pi.kɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « piquante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around piquante (IPA \pi.kɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,835 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de piquant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for piquante, with forms such as "ipquante", "piqaunte", and "piqquante". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "puante", "piquent", "piquants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is piquante, spelled P-I-Q-U-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de piquant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how piquante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Non pas que le thé et les gâteaux manquassent dans la maison, mais parce que, je suppose, c’est l’habitude d’un Européen zanzibarisé de mettre dans son vin un peu d’eau de Seltz, comme stimulant aux fins caquetages que, sous cette piquante influence, il débite à ses auditeurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipquante
- piqaunte
- piqquante
- piquanet
- piquannte
- piquantte
- piquatne
- piqunate
- piuqante
- ppiquante
- pqiuante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piquante - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "piquante", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).