panda
\pɑ̃.da\
The verdict
“panda” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,955
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom partagé par deux espèces de mammifères :
Corpus desk
Index FR-panda · panda · French
panda · rank #15,955 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,955
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH orphelin
Nearest frequency peer: orphelin (-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 « panda »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- opter
opter
84,049 corpus weight
- oriente
oriente
84,048 corpus weight
- orphelin
orphelin
84,047 corpus weight
- panda
panda
84,046 corpus weight
- parachute
parachute
84,045 corpus weight
- paramètre
paramètre
84,044 corpus weight
What this shows « panda » 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 | panda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.da\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « panda »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around panda (IPA \pɑ̃.da\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,955 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for panda, with forms such as "apnda", "padna", and "panad". 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, "PDA", "Papa", "pans", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is panda, spelled P-A-N-D-A.
Definition
- 1Nom partagé par deux espèces de mammifères :
- 2Nom partagé par deux espèces de mammifères :
- 3Nom partagé par deux espèces de mammifères :
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how panda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pandas sont deux espèces très menacées.
Choko Lablanc, le petit panda, n’a jamais reçu de fessée ! Incroyable ! Tous ses copains ont fait cette expérience et lui pas. Qu'est-ce qu’il rêve de recevoir une sacrée bonne fessée ! Encore faut-il la mériter…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apnda
- padna
- panad
- pandda
- pannda
- pnada
- ppanda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of panda - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).