puceau
\py.so\
The verdict
“puceau” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,489. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,489
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie celles et ceux qui n'ont pas eu de relation sexuelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puceau · puceau · French
puceau · rank #26,489 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,489
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prévenant
Nearest frequency peer: prévenant (-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 « puceau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prussienne
prussienne
73,515 corpus weight
- prussiens
prussiens
73,514 corpus weight
- prévenant
prévenant
73,513 corpus weight
- puceau
puceau
73,512 corpus weight
- pulpe
pulpe
73,511 corpus weight
- push
push
73,510 corpus weight
What this shows « puceau » 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 | puceau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \py.so\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « puceau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around puceau (IPA \py.so\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,489 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for puceau, with forms such as "pcueau", "ppuceau", and "pucaeu". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "puces", "Puteaux", "peau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is puceau, spelled P-U-C-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Qualifie celles et ceux qui n'ont pas eu de relation sexuelle.
- 2Qualifie celles et ceux qui sont inexpérimentés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how puceau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La sociologie américaine nous vient d'un monde où les jeunes, avant même l'invention de la pilule, avaient le droit de s'envoyer en l’air sur les banquettes arrière des voitures. Ils ne le faisaient cependant qu'en vitesse et avec un appel immodéré à la fellation. Sans être tout à fait puceaux, ils arrivaient pour l'essentiel vierges au mariage.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pcueau
- ppuceau
- pucaeu
- pucceau
- puceua
- puecau
- upceau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puceau - 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 "puceau", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).