papoter
\pa.pɔ.te\
The verdict
“papoter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,083. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,083
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bavarder, discuter de choses futiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papoter · papoter · French
papoter · rank #36,083 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,083
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pancakes
Nearest frequency peer: pancakes (-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 « papoter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ontarienne
ontarienne
63,921 corpus weight
- pancakes
pancakes
63,919 corpus weight
- papoter
papoter
63,918 corpus weight
- paraissaient
paraissaient
63,917 corpus weight
- paraissant
paraissant
63,916 corpus weight
- parjure
parjure
63,915 corpus weight
What this shows « papoter » 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 | papoter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.pɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « papoter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around papoter (IPA \pa.pɔ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,083 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bavarder, discuter de choses futiles.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for papoter, with forms such as "appoter", "paopter", and "papoetr". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "pater", "piloter", "pivoter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 papoter, spelled P-A-P-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Bavarder, discuter de choses futiles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how papoter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La petite Duret aussi grimpait souvent ses trois étages, entrait avec des excuses effarouchées, s'asseyait craintivement, papotait, parlait de leurs maris, plaignait Louise, se plaignait ; […].
Elle menait une vie très indépendante, passait les après-midis et les soirées dans les salons où l'on papotait indéfiniment.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- appoter
- paopter
- papoetr
- papoterr
- papotre
- papotter
- pappoter
- paptoer
- ppaoter
- ppapoter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of papoter - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).