Palerme

Name: Palerme, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\pa.lɛʁm\

/\pa.lɛʁm\/ name

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“Palerme” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,639. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,639
frequency rank, French: 6,826
“P” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville de la région de Sicile, en Italie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-palerme · Palerme · French

Palerme · rank #22,639 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

FREQ-MID #22,639
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,826
PHOTO-FINISH Ouagadougou

Nearest frequency peer: Ouagadougou (-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.

optimistes

77,365
Osaka

77,364
Ouagadougou

77,363
Palerme

77,362
paper

77,361
passablement

77,360

What this shows « Palerme » 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).

Palerme vs Palme

71% similar

Palerme vs parme

57% similar

Palerme vs palette

57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Palerme
Property	Value
Headword	Palerme
Language	French
Part of speech	Proper noun
IPA	\pa.lɛʁm\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#22,639
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	3
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Palerme »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Palermese place ici:

#22,639

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Ouagadougou » (#22,638), « paper » (#22,640), « Osaka » (#22,637). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Palerme » est au #22,639. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Palerme (IPA \pa.lɛʁm\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,639 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Palerme, with forms such as "aplerme", "paelrme", and "palemre". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Palme", "parme", "palette", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Palerme, spelled P-A-L-E-R-M-E.

Definition

1
Commune et ville de la région de Sicile, en Italie.
2
Province autour de cette ville.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Palerme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

En 2002, le Canada ratifie le Protocole de Palerme sur la traite des personnes.

This word in other languages

Palermo(English)Palermo(Español)Palermo(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

aplerme
paelrme
palemre
palerem
palermme
palerrme
pallerme
palreme
plaerme
ppalerme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Palerme - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "Palerme"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Palerme"?

"Palerme" is spelled P-A-L-E-R-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.lɛʁm\.

What does "Palerme" mean?

As a proper noun, "Palerme" means: Commune et ville de la région de Sicile, en Italie.

What words are commonly confused with "Palerme"?

"Palerme" is commonly confused with "Palme", "parme", "palette". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "Palerme"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Palerme" is \pa.lɛʁm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "Palerme" come from?

"Palerme" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Palerme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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