piqûre

\pi.kyʁ\

/\pi.kyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“piqûre” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,280. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,280
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite blessure que fait une chose ou un animal qui pique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-piqure · piqûre · French

piqûre · rank #18,280 · 8 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,280
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH PG

Nearest frequency peer: PG (-2 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 « piqûre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « piqûre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

piqûre vs pire
67% similar
piqûre vs pure
50% similar
piqûre vs pitre
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for piqûre
PropertyValue
Headwordpiqûre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pi.kyʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#18,280
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « piqûre »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.piqûrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « PG » (#18,278), « perturbée » (#18,277), « poignardé » (#18,283). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « piqûre » est au #18,280. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around piqûre (IPA \pi.kyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,280 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for piqûre, with forms such as "ipqûre", "piqqûre", and "piqrûe". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "pire", "pure", "pitre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is piqûre, spelled P-I-Q-Û-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petite blessure que fait une chose ou un animal qui pique.
  2. 2
    Piqûre anatomique : Blessure légère reçue en disséquant ou en faisant une opération chirurgicale, et qui produit souvent les accidents les plus graves et même la mort, par infection ou empoisonnement sanguin.
  3. 3
    Injection sous-cutanée intraveineuse ou intramusculaire d’un médicament à l’aide d’une seringue.
  4. 4
    Blessure que le maréchal fait accidentellement au pied d’un cheval qu’il ferre, en enfonçant un clou jusqu’au vif.
  5. 5
    Trous que font des insectes dans les fruits, le bois, les étoffes, le papier, etc.
  6. 6
    Petites taches d’humidité sur le papier.
  7. 7
    Coutures visibles, habituellement faites aujourd’hui à la machine, soit pour unir deux ou plusieurs étoffes mises l’une sur l’autre, soit pour orner certaines parties d’un vêtement.
  8. 8
    Légère offense que l’on reçoit.
  9. 9
    Soudain enthousiasme pour quelque chose.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how piqûre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une piqûre d’épingle.
  2. La piqûre d’une abeille, d’un scorpion.

This word in other languages

sting(English)picadura(Español)Stich(Deutsch)picada(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ipqûre
  • piqqûre
  • piqrûe
  • piqûer
  • piqûrre
  • piûqre
  • ppiqûre
  • pqiûre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piqûre - 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.

ipqûre2piqqûre1piqrûe2piqûer2piqûrre1piûqre2ppiqûre1pqiûre2
Edit distance from "piqûre"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "piqûre"?
"piqûre" is spelled P-I-Q-Û-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pi.kyʁ\.
What does "piqûre" mean?
As a noun, "piqûre" means: Petite blessure que fait une chose ou un animal qui pique.
What words are commonly confused with "piqûre"?
"piqûre" is commonly confused with "pire", "pure", "pitre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "piqûre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "piqûre" is \pi.kyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "piqûre" come from?
"piqûre" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "piqûre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

parlée#18,272opérée#18,269moraux#18,259rentes#18,306

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

patch8 variantsstark8 variantsThiago8 variantstirait8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list