Papouasie
\pa.pwa.zi\
The verdict
“Papouasie” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,193. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,193
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nouvelle-Guinée, grande île d’Océanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papouasie · Papouasie · French
Papouasie · rank #35,193 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,193
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paléolithique
Nearest frequency peer: paléolithique (-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 « Papouasie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- paddy
paddy
64,811 corpus weight
- Palmyre
Palmyre
64,810 corpus weight
- paléolithiq…
paléolithique
64,809 corpus weight
- Papouasie
Papouasie
64,808 corpus weight
- paria
paria
64,807 corpus weight
- partes
partes
64,806 corpus weight
What this shows « Papouasie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Papouasie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pwa.zi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Papouasie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Papouasie (IPA \pa.pwa.zi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,193 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Papouasie, with forms such as "appouasie", "paopuasie", and "papoausie". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Papouasie, spelled P-A-P-O-U-A-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Nouvelle-Guinée, grande île d’Océanie.
- 2Ancien territoire australien recouvrant le quart sud-est de la Nouvelle-Guinée (1884-1949).
- 3Région sud de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée (1975-).
- 4Province de l’Indonésie occupant la moitié occidentale de la Nouvelle-Guinée (2002-).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Papouasie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
PAPOUASIE ou NOUVELLE-GUINÉE. La plus grande île du monde après l’Australie, au N. de cette dernière, entre 0° et 9° de latitude S. ; et entre 130° et 150° de longitude E.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- appouasie
- paopuasie
- papoausie
- papouaise
- papouasei
- papouassie
- papousaie
- pappouasie
- papuoasie
- ppaouasie
- ppapouasie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Papouasie - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).