paparazzi
\pa.pa.ʁad.zi\
The verdict
“paparazzi” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,816. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,816
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Photographe qui a pour domaine de prédilection la vie privée des célébrités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paparazzi · paparazzi · French
paparazzi · rank #33,816 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,816
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pactole
Nearest frequency peer: pactole (-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 « paparazzi »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- packaging
packaging
66,188 corpus weight
- Packard
Packard
66,187 corpus weight
- pactole
pactole
66,186 corpus weight
- paparazzi
paparazzi
66,185 corpus weight
- parliez
parliez
66,184 corpus weight
- partagera
partagera
66,183 corpus weight
What this shows « paparazzi » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paparazzi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pa.ʁad.zi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paparazzi »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around paparazzi (IPA \pa.pa.ʁad.zi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,816 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Photographe qui a pour domaine de prédilection la vie privée des célébrités.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for paparazzi, with forms such as "apparazzi", "paaprazzi", and "papaarzzi". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is paparazzi, spelled P-A-P-A-R-A-Z-Z-I.
Definition
- 1Photographe qui a pour domaine de prédilection la vie privée des célébrités.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paparazzi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Viendrait-elle vivre au Pakistan avec lui pour échapper aux paparazzis?
Il connaissait des photographes de pub, des photographes de mode, et même quelques photographes de guerre (encore qu’il les eût plutôt rencontrés dans l’activité de paparazzi qu’ils exerçaient par ailleurs en s’en cachant plus ou moins, puisqu’il était en général considéré comme moins noble dans la profession de photographier les seins de Pamela Anderson…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apparazzi
- paaprazzi
- papaarzzi
- paparazi
- paparaziz
- paparrazzi
- paparzazi
- papparazzi
- papraazzi
- ppaarazzi
- ppaparazzi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paparazzi - 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 "paparazzi", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).