panique
\pa.nik\
The verdict
“panique” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,056
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a un rapport avec le dieu Pan ou les forces de la nature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-panique · panique · French
panique · rank #5,056 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,056
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Oscar
Nearest frequency peer: Oscar (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “panique”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- observations
observations
94,948 corpus weight
- off
off
94,947 corpus weight
- Oscar
Oscar
94,946 corpus weight
- panique
panique
94,945 corpus weight
- passées
passées
94,944 corpus weight
- perception
perception
94,943 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “panique” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | panique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.nik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “panique” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around panique (IPA \pa.nik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,056 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for panique, with forms such as "apnique", "painque", and "paniqeu". 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. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "pique", "pâque", "parque", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is panique, spelled P-A-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a un rapport avec le dieu Pan ou les forces de la nature.
- 2En parlant d’une terreur, d’une peur : soudaine, complète et souvent irraisonnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how panique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’énorme joie panique dans laquelle passe la joie de l’univers.
La pénombre et l’immobilité close prenaient dans un cristal magique ces débris médiocres, une rêverie se dévidait au fil de ce bruit de fontaines qui semblait rappeler encore à leurs humbles besognes les occupants évanouis, renouer en guirlande muette autour du puits et du lavoir ces gestes profonds qui font bondir au cœur comme un sentiment panique de la…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apnique
- painque
- paniqeu
- paniqque
- paniuqe
- pannique
- panqiue
- pnaique
- ppanique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of panique - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "panique", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "panique". Here's where to go from here.
- "panique" maps to 12 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "pique". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #5,056 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.