pygmées
\piɡ.me\
The verdict
“pygmées” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,655. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,655
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pygmée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pygmees · pygmées · French
pygmées · rank #44,655 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,655
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puériculture
Nearest frequency peer: puériculture (-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 « pygmées »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prétendaient
prétendaient
55,349 corpus weight
- punies
punies
55,348 corpus weight
- puériculture
puériculture
55,347 corpus weight
- pygmées
pygmées
55,346 corpus weight
- pyramidal
pyramidal
55,345 corpus weight
- pépinières
pépinières
55,344 corpus weight
What this shows « pygmées » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pygmées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \piɡ.me\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pygmées »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pygmées (IPA \piɡ.me\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,655 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pygmée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pygmées, with forms such as "pgymées", "ppygmées", and "pyggmées". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pygmées, spelled P-Y-G-M-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pygmée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pgymées
- ppygmées
- pyggmées
- pygmees
- pygmeés
- pygmmées
- pygméess
- pygmése
- pygémes
- pymgées
- pyygmées
- ypgmées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pygmées - 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 "pygmées", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).