paladin
\pa.la.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“paladin” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,776. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,776
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pair qui suivait Charlemagne à la guerre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paladin · paladin · French
paladin · rank #45,776 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,776
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH P2P
Nearest frequency peer: P2P (-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 « paladin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- oublieras
oublieras
54,228 corpus weight
- P2P
P2P
54,226 corpus weight
- paladin
paladin
54,225 corpus weight
- parisis
parisis
54,224 corpus weight
- Pattinson
Pattinson
54,223 corpus weight
- PCB
PCB
54,222 corpus weight
What this shows « paladin » 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 | paladin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.la.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paladin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around paladin (IPA \pa.la.dɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,776 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for paladin, with forms such as "apladin", "paaldin", and "paladdin". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "plain", "palin", "palais", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is paladin, spelled P-A-L-A-D-I-N.
Definition
- 1Pair qui suivait Charlemagne à la guerre.
- 2Chevalier courant le monde en cherchant des aventures.
- 3Homme intrépide et animé de sentiments chevaleresques.
- 4Guerrier défendant une divinité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paladin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis, les riantes images de la chevalerie sourdirent d’une armure de Milan supérieurement damasquinée, bien fourbie, et sous la visière de laquelle brillaient encore les yeux d’un paladin.
Dès le treizième siècle, les paladins de France, les héros de Charlemagne, fournissent le sujet de récits et de chants qui ont cours au-delà des Alpes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apladin
- paaldin
- paladdin
- paladinn
- paladni
- palaidn
- paldain
- palladin
- plaadin
- ppaladin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paladin - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).