panne
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,966
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
panne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Position immobile d’un navire. Pronounced \pan\. It ranks #4,966 in French word frequency. Often confused with pape and paye.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | panne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for panne is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pan\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,966 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for panne, with forms such as "apnne", "pane", and "panen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pape", "paye", "pâte", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is panne, spelled P-A-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Position immobile d’un navire.
- 2Impossibilité accidentelle et momentanée d’agir ou de fonctionner.
- 3Important dysfonctionnement physiologique momentané, qui n’est ni une maladie, ni une pathologie.
- 4Absence de fonctionnement d’une machine de fabrication humaine, qu’elle soit mécanique, électrique ou électronique.
- 5État anormal d’une unité fonctionnelle la mettant dans l’impossibilité d'accomplir une fonction requise.
- 6Cessation de l’alimentation, de la fourniture.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apnne,pane,panen,pnane,ppanne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for panne
Misspelling Variants of "panne"
Frequency rank: #4,966 in French
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