pixels
\pik.sɛl\
The verdict
“pixels” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,021. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,021
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pixel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pixels · pixels · French
pixels · rank #18,021 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,021
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Philips
Nearest frequency peer: Philips (-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 « pixels »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- persistance
persistance
81,983 corpus weight
- Peterson
Peterson
81,982 corpus weight
- Philips
Philips
81,981 corpus weight
- pixels
pixels
81,980 corpus weight
- Piéton
Piéton
81,979 corpus weight
- pointu
pointu
81,978 corpus weight
What this shows « pixels » 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 | pixels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pik.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pixels »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pixels (IPA \pik.sɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,021 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pixel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pixels, with forms such as "ipxels", "piexls", and "pixells". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "pieds", "pires", "piles", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pixels, spelled P-I-X-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pixel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipxels
- piexls
- pixells
- pixelss
- pixesl
- pixles
- pixxels
- ppixels
- pxiels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pixels - 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 "pixels", 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).