paella
\pa.e.ja\
The verdict
“paella” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,840. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,840
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plat originaire du Pays valencien à base de riz, parfumé au safran, avec de la viande (poulet, canard ou lapin) frite à l’huile d’olive auquel on ajoute généralement d’autres ingrédients, en partic...
Corpus desk
Index FR-paella · paella · French
paella · rank #49,840 · 6 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,840
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH oxydant
Nearest frequency peer: oxydant (-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 « paella »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- oublierons
oublierons
50,164 corpus weight
- outrageusem…
outrageusement
50,163 corpus weight
- oxydant
oxydant
50,162 corpus weight
- paella
paella
50,161 corpus weight
- paierais
paierais
50,160 corpus weight
- Pamiers
Pamiers
50,159 corpus weight
What this shows « paella » 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 | paella |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.e.ja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paella »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around paella (IPA \pa.e.ja\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,840 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plat originaire du Pays valencien à base de riz, parfumé au safran, avec de la viande (poulet, canard ou lapin) frite à l’huile d’olive auquel on ajoute généralement d’autres ingrédients, en partic...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for paella, with forms such as "apella", "paela", and "paelal". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "pelle", "Paula", "palma", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 paella, spelled P-A-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Plat originaire du Pays valencien à base de riz, parfumé au safran, avec de la viande (poulet, canard ou lapin) frite à l’huile d’olive auquel on ajoute généralement d’autres ingrédients, en particulier des légumes (petits pois, tomates, haricots verts, entre autres), des fruits de mer, du piment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paella appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’odeur de la paella, c’est toute mon enfance. Cet arôme tantôt divin, tantôt repoussant tant il est puissant, a toujours baigné ma maison, qui était aussi le restaurant familial. C’est d’abord les effluves de l’ail, des oignons et des poivrons qui confisent dans l’huile d’olive espagnole… Puis le mélange des tomates, du safran, du riz et, accessoirement,…
Ça refoule vilain, dans ce coincetot. La paella d’abord, et puis aussi l’eau de lavande et l’éponge de bidet.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apella
- paela
- paelal
- palela
- pealla
- ppaella
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paella - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).