pistoles
\pis.tɔl\
The verdict
“pistoles” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,856
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pistole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pistoles · pistoles · French
pistoles · rank #49,856 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,856
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pieuses
Nearest frequency peer: pieuses (-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 « pistoles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- photogénique
photogénique
50,148 corpus weight
- pieuses
pieuses
50,146 corpus weight
- pistoles
pistoles
50,145 corpus weight
- piétiné
piétiné
50,144 corpus weight
- plaigne
plaigne
50,143 corpus weight
- Pocahontas
Pocahontas
50,142 corpus weight
What this shows « pistoles » 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 | pistoles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pis.tɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pistoles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pistoles (IPA \pis.tɔl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,856 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pistole.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pistoles, with forms such as "ipstoles", "pisotles", and "pisstoles". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "pistons", "pistolet", "postales", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pistoles, spelled P-I-S-T-O-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pistole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pistoles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sachez, comte Henri, que c'est petit métier de voltairianiser dans les lieux où l’on boit du petit vin : sachez que l’absence de religion fait seule donner de si beaux chevaux à Zora ; et qu’après tout, mieux vaut encore mettre une bête de 15,000 fr. dans l’écurie de cette rousse que de sâouler d’impiété quelques centaines de butors, pour un gage de quinz…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipstoles
- pisotles
- pisstoles
- pistloes
- pistoels
- pistoless
- pistolles
- pistolse
- pisttoles
- pitsoles
- ppistoles
- psitoles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pistoles - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).