papilles
\pa.pij\
The verdict
“papilles” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,070. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,070
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de papille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papilles · papilles · French
papilles · rank #25,070 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,070
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pamphlet
Nearest frequency peer: pamphlet (-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 « papilles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- odorat
odorat
74,934 corpus weight
- Ouattara
Ouattara
74,933 corpus weight
- pamphlet
pamphlet
74,932 corpus weight
- papilles
papilles
74,931 corpus weight
- paroxysme
paroxysme
74,930 corpus weight
- partners
partners
74,929 corpus weight
What this shows « papilles » 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 | papilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « papilles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around papilles (IPA \pa.pij\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,070 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de papille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for papilles, with forms such as "appilles", "paiplles", and "papilels". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "pillés", "pupille", "papillon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is papilles, spelled P-A-P-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de papille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how papilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais c’est tout de même la plume sensuelle de l’Iranienne Marsha Mehran qui apprête le plus suavement les papilles à déguster la grenade avec son livre La soupe à la grenade, cette aash-e anar qui « repose entièrement sur ce fruit pour son inspiration. D’un magenta brillant quand il a fini de cuire, le jus de grenade donne à la soupe un goût aigre-doux… ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- appilles
- paiplles
- papilels
- papiles
- papilless
- papillse
- papliles
- pappilles
- ppailles
- ppapilles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of papilles - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "papilles", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).