panel
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "panel", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "panel" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "panel" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
panel is aEnglishnoun. It means: A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc. Pronounced /ˈpænəl/. It ranks #2,749 in English word frequency. Often confused with Paul and pine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | panel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpænəl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for panel is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpænəl/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,749 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for panel, with forms such as "apnel", "paenl", and "panell". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Paul", "pine", "peel", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English panel (“piece of cloth, saddle pad, pane of glass, piece of ice, part, division, jury list, jury members”), from Anglo-Norman panel, panelle (“piece of cloth, saddle cushion”), from Vulgar Latin *pannellus, diminutive of Latin pannus (“c… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is panel, spelled P-A-N-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- 2A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- 3A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- 4A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- 5An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- 6A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- 7A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- 8The whole jury.
- 9A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- 10A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
- 11A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- 12A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- 13One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- 14A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- 15A heap of dressed ore.
- 16One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- 17A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- 18A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- 19A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- 20A group of tests or assays, a battery.
Etymology
From Middle English panel (“piece of cloth, saddle pad, pane of glass, piece of ice, part, division, jury list, jury members”), from Anglo-Norman panel, panelle (“piece of cloth, saddle cushion”), from Vulgar Latin *pannellus, diminutive of Latin pannus (“cloth, rag, garment”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Cognate with Old English fana (“a piece of cloth, patch, banner, flag, vane”). Doublet of vane.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apnel,paenl,panell,panle,pannel,pnael,ppanel
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Misspelling Variants of "panel"
Frequency rank: #2,749 in English
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