pitch
\pitʃ\
The verdict
“pitch” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,719. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,719
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Angle mesuré entre la direction d’un plan (de stratification par exemple) et une droite (linéation) de ce plan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pitch · pitch · French
pitch · rank #24,719 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,719
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piquet
Nearest frequency peer: piquet (-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 « pitch »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pilon
pilon
75,285 corpus weight
- pinceaux
pinceaux
75,284 corpus weight
- piquet
piquet
75,283 corpus weight
- pitch
pitch
75,282 corpus weight
- plaquette
plaquette
75,281 corpus weight
- Poincaré
Poincaré
75,280 corpus weight
What this shows « pitch » 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 | pitch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pitʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pitch »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pitch (IPA \pitʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,719 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pitch, with forms such as "iptch", "picth", and "pitcch". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Pitt", "pitié", "punch", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pitch, spelled P-I-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1Angle mesuré entre la direction d’un plan (de stratification par exemple) et une droite (linéation) de ce plan.
- 2Facteur d’avancement de la table dans un scanner.
- 3Résumé d’une idée, d’un scénario, destiné à convaincre en quelques mots de son intérêt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pitch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le « pitch » me parut intéressant, il y avait un public pour ces livres distrayants.
En start-up, le pitch, entre cinq et dix minutes, présente donc le projet à des investisseurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iptch
- picth
- pitcch
- pitchh
- pithc
- pittch
- ppitch
- ptich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pitch - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "pitch"?
What does "pitch" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "pitch"?
How do you pronounce "pitch"?
What language does "pitch" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pitch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).