panel
\pa.nɛl\
The verdict
“panel” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,751. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,751
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Échantillon de population censé être représentatif d’une population globale, en matière d’habitudes de consommation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-panel · panel · French
panel · rank #14,751 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,751
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ornée
Nearest frequency peer: ornée (-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 « panel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- opté
opté
85,253 corpus weight
- opératoire
opératoire
85,252 corpus weight
- ornée
ornée
85,251 corpus weight
- panel
panel
85,250 corpus weight
- passionnée
passionnée
85,248 corpus weight
- pavés
pavés
85,247 corpus weight
What this shows « panel » 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 | panel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « panel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around panel (IPA \pa.nɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,751 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 panel, with forms such as "apnel", "paenl", and "panell". 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, "PNL", "Paul", "pape", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 panel, spelled P-A-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Échantillon de population censé être représentatif d’une population globale, en matière d’habitudes de consommation.
- 2Groupe de spécialistes rassemblés pour exposer leurs points de vue respectifs, sur un sujet donné, devant un auditoire avec lequel des échanges sont prévus.
- 3Ensemble, groupe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how panel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi la société Nielsen-Sofres a un panel de 300 foyers (renouvelés toutes les 2 semaines), qui regardent la télévision tandis qu’Audimat gère un panel de 2 300 foyers.
S’agissant de l’intervention, au stade de l’appréciation des offres, d’une commission technique interne et un panel d’utilisateurs dont ni l’existence, ni la composition, ni les règles de fonctionnement n’avaient été mentionnées dans les documents de la consultation, la CAA de Versailles rappelle que le pouvoir adjudicateur, qui définit librement la métho…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apnel
- paenl
- panell
- panle
- pannel
- pnael
- ppanel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of panel - 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
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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).