pittoresques
\pi.tɔ.ʁɛsk\
The verdict
“pittoresques” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,292. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,292
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pittoresque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pittoresques · pittoresques · French
pittoresques · rank #28,292 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #28,292
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pistons
Nearest frequency peer: pistons (-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 « pittoresques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- personal
personal
71,712 corpus weight
- perverse
perverse
71,711 corpus weight
- pistons
pistons
71,710 corpus weight
- pittoresques
pittoresques
71,709 corpus weight
- pleuvait
pleuvait
71,708 corpus weight
- plongent
plongent
71,707 corpus weight
What this shows « pittoresques » 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 | pittoresques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pi.tɔ.ʁɛsk\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #28,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pittoresques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around pittoresques (IPA \pi.tɔ.ʁɛsk\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,292 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pittoresque.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for pittoresques, with forms such as "ipttoresques", "pitoresques", and "pitotresques". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pittoresque", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pittoresques, spelled P-I-T-T-O-R-E-S-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pittoresque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pittoresques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi les pittoresques coucous qui stationnaient sur la place de la Concorde en encombrant le Cours-la-Reine, les coucous si florissants pendant un siècle, si nombreux encore en 1830, n’existent plus ; et, par la plus attrayante solennité champêtre, à peine en aperçoit-on un sur la route en 1842.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipttoresques
- pitoresques
- pitotresques
- pittoersques
- pittoreqsues
- pittoresqeus
- pittoresqques
- pittoresquess
- pittoresquse
- pittoressques
- pittoresuqes
- pittorresques
- pittorseques
- pittroesques
- ppittoresques
- ptitoresques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pittoresques - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).