paca
\pa.ka\
The verdict
“paca” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,529. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,529
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand Rongeur (max. 80 cm de long) nocturne d'Amérique tropicale vivant du Sud du Mexique jusqu'au Paraguay, proche parent de l'agouti.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paca · paca · French
paca · rank #14,529 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,529
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Owen
Nearest frequency peer: Owen (-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 « paca »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- oracle
oracle
85,475 corpus weight
- otto
otto
85,474 corpus weight
- Owen
Owen
85,473 corpus weight
- paca
paca
85,472 corpus weight
- palestinien…
palestinienne
85,471 corpus weight
- parcourt
parcourt
85,470 corpus weight
What this shows « paca » 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 | paca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ka\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paca »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around paca (IPA \pa.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,529 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Grand Rongeur (max. 80 cm de long) nocturne d'Amérique tropicale vivant du Sud du Mexique jusqu'au Paraguay, proche parent de l'agouti.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for paca, with forms such as "apca", "paac", and "pacca". 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, "PC", "pas", "par", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is paca, spelled P-A-C-A.
Definition
- 1Grand Rongeur (max. 80 cm de long) nocturne d'Amérique tropicale vivant du Sud du Mexique jusqu'au Paraguay, proche parent de l'agouti.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La viande de paca est très recherchée, ce qui menace son existence.
Le paca vit dans un terrier. Les mœurs sont proches de celles de l'agouti, mais la femelle a un seul petit par an, au milieu de l'été. Il s'apprivoise facilement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apca
- paac
- pacca
- pcaa
- ppaca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paca - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).