palpable
\pal.pabl\
The verdict
“palpable” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,961. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,961
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qu’on peut palper, qui se fait sentir au toucher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palpable · palpable · French
palpable · rank #22,961 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,961
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH organisait
Nearest frequency peer: organisait (-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 « palpable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- OMC
OMC
77,043 corpus weight
- OMG
OMG
77,042 corpus weight
- organisait
organisait
77,041 corpus weight
- palpable
palpable
77,040 corpus weight
- parfaire
parfaire
77,039 corpus weight
- Parkinson
Parkinson
77,038 corpus weight
What this shows « palpable » 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 | palpable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pal.pabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « palpable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around palpable (IPA \pal.pabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,961 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for palpable, with forms such as "aplpable", "palapble", and "pallpable". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "papale", "payable", "passable", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is palpable, spelled P-A-L-P-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qu’on peut palper, qui se fait sentir au toucher.
- 2Qui est clair, dont on peut se rendre compte, dont on touche du doigt la réalité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palpable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les trigger points sont des zones ultracompactes ou des bandes hypercontractées nodulaires au sein du muscle et sont palpables.
Alors, je voulus m’assurer s’il y avait quelque chose de réel et surtout de palpable dans cette apparition.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplpable
- palapble
- pallpable
- palpabble
- palpabel
- palpablle
- palpalbe
- palpbale
- palppable
- paplable
- plapable
- ppalpable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of palpable - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).