panama
\pa.na.ma\
The verdict
“panama” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,628. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,628
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chapeau d’été, large et souple, fabriqué en Équateur et au Pérou, tressé avec les feuilles de Carludovica palmata, une plante palmiforme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-panama · panama · French
panama · rank #11,628 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,628
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH nuque
Nearest frequency peer: nuque (-2 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 « panama »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- muni
muni
88,377 corpus weight
- naïf
naïf
88,376 corpus weight
- nuque
nuque
88,375 corpus weight
- panama
panama
88,373 corpus weight
- particulari…
particularités
88,371 corpus weight
- pelle
pelle
88,370 corpus weight
What this shows « panama » 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 | panama |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.na.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « panama »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around panama (IPA \pa.na.ma\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,628 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chapeau d’été, large et souple, fabriqué en Équateur et au Pérou, tressé avec les feuilles de Carludovica palmata, une plante palmiforme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for panama, with forms such as "apnama", "paanma", and "panaam". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "panda", "pyjama", "Paname", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 panama, spelled P-A-N-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Chapeau d’été, large et souple, fabriqué en Équateur et au Pérou, tressé avec les feuilles de Carludovica palmata, une plante palmiforme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how panama appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur les photos de famille prises l’été suivant, on voit de jeunes dames en robes longues, aux chapeaux empanachés de plumes d’autruche, des messieurs coiffés de canotiers et de panamas qui sourient à un bébé : ce sont mes parents, mon grand-père, des oncles, des tantes, et c’est moi.
Carminé alla le lendemain chez un tailleur de la Via Ruggero Settimo. Il en revint habillé de tussor blanc, avec un veston cintré, une cravate noire et un panama à large bord.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apnama
- paanma
- panaam
- panamma
- panmaa
- pannama
- pnaama
- ppanama
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of panama - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).