palace
\pa.las\
The verdict
“palace” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,759. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,759
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hôtel le plus souvent luxueux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palace · palace · French
palace · rank #10,759 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,759
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ouvertures
Nearest frequency peer: ouvertures (-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 « palace »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- obligatoire…
obligatoirement
89,246 corpus weight
- obscur
obscur
89,245 corpus weight
- obus
obus
89,244 corpus weight
- ouvertures
ouvertures
89,243 corpus weight
- palace
palace
89,242 corpus weight
- parfaits
parfaits
89,240 corpus weight
What this shows « palace » 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 | palace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.las\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « palace »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around palace (IPA \pa.las\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,759 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hôtel le plus souvent luxueux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for palace, with forms such as "aplace", "paalce", and "palacce". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "parce", "place", "plage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is palace, spelled P-A-L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Hôtel le plus souvent luxueux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant à la clientèle, si elle varie énormément d’un continent à l’autre, elle se reconnait de très loin, combien même un palace reste un palace et donc un lieu aseptisé par excellence où il est rare qu’un hôte se permette de vous accoster.
Mais l'avance des Russes ne fait pas du tout rigoler Isabelle, elle sait bien que quand ils seront ici, ils ratiboiseront d'abord les palaces et après, tous les pleins aux as qui marinent dedans. »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplace
- paalce
- palacce
- palaec
- palcae
- pallace
- plaace
- ppalace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of palace - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).