pister
\pis.te\
The verdict
“pister” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,454. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,454
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suivre les traces d’un animal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pister · pister · French
pister · rank #41,454 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,454
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pirée
Nearest frequency peer: Pirée (-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 « pister »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- photosynthè…
photosynthèse
58,550 corpus weight
- pigiste
pigiste
58,549 corpus weight
- Pirée
Pirée
58,548 corpus weight
- pister
pister
58,547 corpus weight
- piégées
piégées
58,546 corpus weight
- plient
plient
58,545 corpus weight
What this shows « pister » 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 | pister |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pis.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pister »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pister (IPA \pis.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,454 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pister, with forms such as "ipster", "pisetr", and "pisster". 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, "poste", "poser", "porter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pister, spelled P-I-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Suivre les traces d’un animal.
- 2Suivre une personne en la surveillant discrètement.
- 3Racoler.
- 4Déposer sur un film la piste magnétique sur laquelle sera enregistré le son.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pister appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous devons pister cet ours avant que ses traces ne s’effacent.
Il s'agit d'un évadé de la Guyane. Je le piste depuis cinq mois et je l'ai manqué une première fois à Nogent dans une guinguette du bord de l'eau, où on l'employait comme garçon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipster
- pisetr
- pisster
- pisterr
- pistre
- pistter
- pitser
- ppister
- psiter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pister - 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 "pister", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).