pretty
\ˈpɹɪt.i\
The verdict
“pretty” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,112. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,112
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Joli, beau, belle ; généralement en parlant d’une femme ou d’un enfant. (voir notes)
Corpus desk
Index FR-pretty · pretty · French
pretty · rank #19,112 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,112
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poux
Nearest frequency peer: poux (-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 « pretty »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- porche
porche
80,892 corpus weight
- portique
portique
80,891 corpus weight
- poux
poux
80,890 corpus weight
- pretty
pretty
80,889 corpus weight
- prisonnière
prisonnière
80,888 corpus weight
- procuration
procuration
80,887 corpus weight
What this shows « pretty » 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 | pretty |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈpɹɪt.i\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pretty »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pretty (IPA \ˈpɹɪt.i\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,112 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Joli, beau, belle ; généralement en parlant d’une femme ou d’un enfant. (voir notes)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pretty, with forms such as "pertty", "ppretty", and "prettyy". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "prêts", "prêté", "Pratt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pretty, spelled P-R-E-T-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Joli, beau, belle ; généralement en parlant d’une femme ou d’un enfant. (voir notes)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pretty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pertty
- ppretty
- prettyy
- prety
- pretyt
- prretty
- prtety
- rpetty
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pretty - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).