pagaille
\pa.ɡaj\
The verdict
“pagaille” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,426. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,426
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désordre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pagaille · pagaille · French
pagaille · rank #25,426 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,426
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pad
Nearest frequency peer: pad (-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 « pagaille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ourson
ourson
74,578 corpus weight
- outré
outré
74,577 corpus weight
- pad
pad
74,576 corpus weight
- pagaille
pagaille
74,575 corpus weight
- papeterie
papeterie
74,573 corpus weight
- parodique
parodique
74,572 corpus weight
What this shows « pagaille » 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 | pagaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ɡaj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pagaille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pagaille (IPA \pa.ɡaj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,426 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Désordre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pagaille, with forms such as "apgaille", "paagille", and "pagaile". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "paille", "Pigalle", "pareille", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 pagaille, spelled P-A-G-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Désordre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pagaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tandis que le convoi d'artillerie évitait Malmédy, une pagaille indescriptible régnait dans la ville.
Un mort dans l’Isère, le trafic ferroviaire en partie bloqué à Grenoble et environ 245 000 foyers privés d’électricité dans onze départements : la neige tombant en abondance a semé la pagaille et provoqué un drame dans la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apgaille
- paagille
- pagaile
- pagailel
- pagalile
- paggaille
- pagialle
- pgaaille
- ppagaille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pagaille - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).