palper
\pal.pe\
The verdict
“palper” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,493. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,493
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toucher avec la main doucement, à plusieurs reprises et en pressant légèrement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palper · palper · French
palper · rank #47,493 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,493
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH oulah
Nearest frequency peer: oulah (-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 « palper »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- orthopédique
orthopédique
52,511 corpus weight
- oublierait
oublierait
52,510 corpus weight
- oulah
oulah
52,509 corpus weight
- palper
palper
52,508 corpus weight
- panic
panic
52,507 corpus weight
- Panzer
Panzer
52,506 corpus weight
What this shows « palper » 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 | palper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pal.pe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « palper »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around palper (IPA \pal.pe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #47,493 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for palper, with forms such as "aplper", "palepr", and "pallper". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pape", "payer", "plier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is palper, spelled P-A-L-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Toucher avec la main doucement, à plusieurs reprises et en pressant légèrement.
- 2Toucher.
- 3Masser.
- 4Sentir très nettement (une ambiance, une émotion).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il essayait de la palper comme pâte à pain dans la huche.
Un service est tout d’abord intangible, pas directement observable, par rapport à un produit qui a une forme, est visible, solide, peut être palpé et a fait l'objet d'une série de transformations physiques.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplper
- palepr
- pallper
- palperr
- palpper
- palpre
- papler
- plaper
- ppalper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of palper - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "palper", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).