panic
\pa.nik\
The verdict
“panic” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,494. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,494
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non usuel de Echinochloa crus-galli, plante herbacée, cespiteuse, annuelle , de la famille des Poacées (graminées), parfois cultivée comme céréale ou comme plante fourragère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-panic · panic · French
panic · rank #47,494 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,494
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH palper
Nearest frequency peer: palper (-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 « panic »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- oublierait
oublierait
52,510 corpus weight
- oulah
oulah
52,509 corpus weight
- palper
palper
52,508 corpus weight
- panic
panic
52,507 corpus weight
- Panzer
Panzer
52,506 corpus weight
- paraboles
paraboles
52,505 corpus weight
What this shows « panic » 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 | panic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.nik\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « panic »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around panic (IPA \pa.nik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,494 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Non usuel de Echinochloa crus-galli, plante herbacée, cespiteuse, annuelle , de la famille des Poacées (graminées), parfois cultivée comme céréale ou comme plante fourragère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for panic, with forms such as "apnic", "painc", and "panci". 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, "pic", "parc", "pari", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is panic, spelled P-A-N-I-C.
Definition
- 1Non usuel de Echinochloa crus-galli, plante herbacée, cespiteuse, annuelle , de la famille des Poacées (graminées), parfois cultivée comme céréale ou comme plante fourragère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how panic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les paysans cultivaient une plus grande variété de céréales à pain coomme le froment et le seigle, ou à bouillies comme l'orge, le mil ou le panic, et semaient en plein champ des mélanges de plusieurs céréales ou des céréales et des légumineuses qui permettaient de compléter l'alimentation animale.
Originaire du Japon, sa culture s’est diffusée dans les régions chaudes tempérées et tropicales (Inde, Chine et Afrique de l’Est). Le panic est utilisé également comme fourrage (il convient pour l’ensilage, mais pas pour le foin). En Egypte ; il est employé pour la régénération des sols alcalins ou salés. Cette espèce est considérée comme une adventice da…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apnic
- painc
- panci
- panicc
- pannic
- pnaic
- ppanic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of panic - 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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