panacée
\pa.na.se\
The verdict
“panacée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,471. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,471
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remède universel capable de guérir tous les maux aussi bien corporels que mentaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-panacee · panacée · French
panacée · rank #38,471 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,471
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paintball
Nearest frequency peer: paintball (-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 « panacée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Oxfam
Oxfam
61,532 corpus weight
- paintball
paintball
61,531 corpus weight
- panacée
panacée
61,530 corpus weight
- Panasonic
Panasonic
61,529 corpus weight
- paramilitai…
paramilitaires
61,528 corpus weight
- pater
pater
61,527 corpus weight
What this shows « panacée » 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 | panacée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.na.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « panacée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around panacée (IPA \pa.na.se\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,471 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 panacée, with forms such as "apnacée", "paancée", and "panaccée". 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, "placée", "pincée", "Paname", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is panacée, spelled P-A-N-A-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Remède universel capable de guérir tous les maux aussi bien corporels que mentaux.
- 2Solution miracle à un problème.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how panacée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Invinciblement, ils lui apparaissaient, ainsi qu’au moyen âge, cultivant des simples, chauffant des cornues, résumant dans des alambics de souveraines panacées, d’incontestables magistères.
Les Indiens trouvoient autour du lac Ontario le baume blanc dans le baumier ; le sucre dans l’érable, le noyer et le merisier ; la teinture rouge dans l’écorce de la perousse ; le toit de leurs chaumières dans l’écorce du bois blanc : ils trouvoient le vinaigre dans les grappes rouges du vinaigrier, le miel et le coton dans les fleurs de l’asperge sauvage…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apnacée
- paancée
- panaccée
- panacee
- panaceé
- panaéce
- pancaée
- pannacée
- pnaacée
- ppanacée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of panacée - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).