Pacific
\pa.si.fik\
The verdict
“Pacific” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,714. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,714
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Type de locomotive à vapeur avec la disposition d’essieux 231.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pacific · Pacific · French
Pacific · rank #21,714 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,714
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH order
Nearest frequency peer: order (-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 « Pacific »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- opportuniste
opportuniste
78,290 corpus weight
- order
order
78,288 corpus weight
- Pacific
Pacific
78,287 corpus weight
- packs
packs
78,286 corpus weight
- palmier
palmier
78,285 corpus weight
- panoplie
panoplie
78,284 corpus weight
What this shows « Pacific » 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 | Pacific |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.si.fik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Pacific »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Pacific (IPA \pa.si.fik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,714 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Type de locomotive à vapeur avec la disposition d’essieux 231.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pacific, with forms such as "apcific", "paccific", and "pacfiic". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pacifier", "pacifique", "pacifiques", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Pacific, spelled P-A-C-I-F-I-C.
Definition
- 1Type de locomotive à vapeur avec la disposition d’essieux 231.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pacific appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La locomotive Pacific 231 E 41, que beaucoup appellent « la loco », fête cette année ses 80 ans d’existence. Les Corpopétrussiens en ont fait un symbole de la ville. La vie de la cité se conjugue en quelque sorte avec la loco qui est l’emblème du vécu cheminot de Saint-Pierre, ville ayant été, il faut le rappeler, l’un des principaux centres français de t…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apcific
- paccific
- pacfiic
- pacifci
- paciffic
- pacificc
- paciifc
- paicfic
- pcaific
- ppacific
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pacific - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).