pirogue
\pi.ʁɔɡ\
The verdict
“pirogue” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,482. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,482
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Embarcation faite d’un seul arbre creusé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pirogue · pirogue · French
pirogue · rank #37,482 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,482
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pir
Nearest frequency peer: pir (-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 « pirogue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Pigalle
Pigalle
62,521 corpus weight
- pir
pir
62,520 corpus weight
- pirogue
pirogue
62,519 corpus weight
- plaident
plaident
62,518 corpus weight
- pliant
pliant
62,517 corpus weight
- pointait
pointait
62,516 corpus weight
What this shows « pirogue » 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 | pirogue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ʁɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pirogue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pirogue (IPA \pi.ʁɔɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,482 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pirogue, with forms such as "iprogue", "piorgue", and "pirgoue". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "proue", "Prague", "promue", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pirogue, spelled P-I-R-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Embarcation faite d’un seul arbre creusé.
- 2Canot long, léger et rapide, à la voile ou à la pagaie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pirogue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Abel Tasman envoya ses canots à terre, et ils revinrent accompagnés de deux pirogues qui portaient un bruyant équipage de naturels.
De nombreuses pirogues, qui venaient d’être construites, furent bénies par le missionnaire en présence d’une partie de la population.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iprogue
- piorgue
- pirgoue
- pirogeu
- piroggue
- pirouge
- pirrogue
- ppirogue
- priogue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pirogue - 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 "pirogue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).