napalm
\na.palm\
The verdict
“napalm” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,441. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,441
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance à base d’essence gélifiée, habituellement utilisée dans les bombes incendiaires durant les guerres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-napalm · napalm · French
napalm · rank #38,441 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,441
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nagent
Nearest frequency peer: nagent (-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 « napalm »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- métallurgiq…
métallurgique
61,563 corpus weight
- métastases
métastases
61,562 corpus weight
- nagent
nagent
61,561 corpus weight
- napalm
napalm
61,560 corpus weight
- natives
natives
61,559 corpus weight
- navigué
navigué
61,558 corpus weight
What this shows « napalm » 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 | napalm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.palm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « napalm »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around napalm (IPA \na.palm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,441 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Substance à base d’essence gélifiée, habituellement utilisée dans les bombes incendiaires durant les guerres.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for napalm, with forms such as "anpalm", "naaplm", and "napallm". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Natal", "Népal", "nasal", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is napalm, spelled N-A-P-A-L-M.
Definition
- 1Substance à base d’essence gélifiée, habituellement utilisée dans les bombes incendiaires durant les guerres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how napalm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle jeta alors un vif regard à bâbord, comme pour s’assurer que les rameurs ne verraient pas ce qu’elle avait résolu de faire et, leur tournant le dos, déboutonna son chemisier, offrant à mon regard deux seins hauts, bruns, fermes, et, sous le gauche, une terrible et profonde entaille calcinée qui balafrait son torse, prononçant à la coréenne un seul mot…
Cette guerre qu'on voit à la télé, Hélène, et la photo de la petite fille brûlée au napalm par ces impérialistes d'Américains, tu t'en souviens?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anpalm
- naaplm
- napallm
- napalmm
- napaml
- naplam
- nappalm
- nnapalm
- npaalm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of napalm - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).