précipice
\pʁe.si.pis\
The verdict
“précipice” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,657. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,657
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abîme, gouffre, cavité très profonde et très escarpée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-precipice · précipice · French
précipice · rank #35,657 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,657
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Prométhée
Nearest frequency peer: Prométhée (-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 « précipice »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- processions
processions
64,347 corpus weight
- procurant
procurant
64,346 corpus weight
- Prométhée
Prométhée
64,345 corpus weight
- précipice
précipice
64,344 corpus weight
- présidait
présidait
64,343 corpus weight
- psychédéliq…
psychédélique
64,342 corpus weight
What this shows « précipice » 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 | précipice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁe.si.pis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « précipice »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around précipice (IPA \pʁe.si.pis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,657 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for précipice, with forms such as "pprécipice", "prcéipice", and "precipice". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "précipité", "précipita", "précipiter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is précipice, spelled P-R-É-C-I-P-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Abîme, gouffre, cavité très profonde et très escarpée.
- 2Grand malheur, disgrâce, catastrophe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how précipice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous commençâmes à côtoyer la pente rapide du col, ayant à notre droite un précipice de cinq ou six cents pieds de profondeur, et au-delà de ce précipice une montagne à pic.
Le capitaine et les quatre hommes […], avaient descendu la pente des rochers, au risque de se briser mille fois en tombant dans les précipices qui s’ouvraient sous leurs pieds.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprécipice
- prcéipice
- precipice
- prrécipice
- préccipice
- préciipce
- précipcie
- précipicce
- précipiec
- précippice
- précpiice
- préicpice
- pércipice
- rpécipice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of précipice - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).