pancréas
\pɑ̃.kʁe.as\
The verdict
“pancréas” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,364. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,364
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Glande abdominale mixte, à la fois exocrine (produisant un suc digestif riche en enzymes pour la digestion des lipides, glucides et protéines) et endocrine (sécrétant des hormones comme l’insuline)...
Corpus desk
Index FR-pancreas · pancréas · French
pancréas · rank #22,364 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,364
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panache
Nearest frequency peer: panache (-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 « pancréas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- origin
origin
77,640 corpus weight
- palettes
palettes
77,639 corpus weight
- panache
panache
77,638 corpus weight
- pancréas
pancréas
77,637 corpus weight
- parleurs
parleurs
77,636 corpus weight
- parviendra
parviendra
77,635 corpus weight
What this shows « pancréas » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pancréas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.kʁe.as\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pancréas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around pancréas (IPA \pɑ̃.kʁe.as\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,364 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Glande abdominale mixte, à la fois exocrine (produisant un suc digestif riche en enzymes pour la digestion des lipides, glucides et protéines) et endocrine (sécrétant des hormones comme l’insuline)...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for pancréas, with forms such as "apncréas", "pacnréas", and "panccréas". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pancréas, spelled P-A-N-C-R-É-A-S.
Definition
- 1Glande abdominale mixte, à la fois exocrine (produisant un suc digestif riche en enzymes pour la digestion des lipides, glucides et protéines) et endocrine (sécrétant des hormones comme l’insuline), dont le suc s’écoule dans le duodénum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pancréas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pancréas a deux fonctions essentielles : le pancréas endocrine est le régulateur hormonal essentiel du taux de sucre dans le sang, le pancréas exocrine est un co-acteur puissant de la digestion, en particulier des graisses.
Des expériences analogues ont démontré ultérieurement que les nerfs vagues renferment également des nerfs sécréteurs innervant le pancréas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apncréas
- pacnréas
- panccréas
- pancraés
- pancreas
- pancrréas
- pancréass
- pancrésa
- pancéras
- panncréas
- panrcéas
- pnacréas
- ppancréas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pancréas - 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).
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