puces
\pys\
The verdict
“puces” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,648. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,648
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marché aux puces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puces · puces · French
puces · rank #12,648 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,648
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préférées
Nearest frequency peer: préférées (-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 « puces »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- promets
promets
87,356 corpus weight
- préavis
préavis
87,355 corpus weight
- préférées
préférées
87,354 corpus weight
- puces
puces
87,353 corpus weight
- péri
péri
87,352 corpus weight
- raisins
raisins
87,350 corpus weight
What this shows « puces » 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 | puces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « puces »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around puces (IPA \pys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,648 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Marché aux puces.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for puces, with forms such as "pcues", "ppuces", and "pucces". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pue", "pus", "puis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is puces, spelled P-U-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Marché aux puces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how puces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a pour ambition de créer une place publique végétalisée, au lieu de l’actuel rond-point, une halle avec mezzanine pour les puces et un immeuble-pont de bureaux et d’hôtellerie-restauration, au-dessus du périphérique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pcues
- ppuces
- pucces
- pucess
- pucse
- puecs
- upces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puces - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).