paprika
\pa.pʁi.ka\
The verdict
“paprika” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,441. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,441
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de piment doux de Hongrie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paprika · paprika · French
paprika · rank #39,441 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,441
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panthères
Nearest frequency peer: panthères (-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 « paprika »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- palet
palet
60,563 corpus weight
- palissade
palissade
60,562 corpus weight
- panthères
panthères
60,561 corpus weight
- paprika
paprika
60,560 corpus weight
- parcimonie
parcimonie
60,559 corpus weight
- parentalité
parentalité
60,558 corpus weight
What this shows « paprika » 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 | paprika |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pʁi.ka\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paprika »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around paprika (IPA \pa.pʁi.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,441 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for paprika, with forms such as "apprika", "papirka", and "papprika". 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. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "paria", "parka", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is paprika, spelled P-A-P-R-I-K-A.
Definition
- 1Variété de piment doux de Hongrie.
- 2Épice obtenue par broyage du fruit de ce piment doux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paprika appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Turcs l’introduisirent dans tout les Balkans à partir des années 1520 : il en restera le paprika hongrois, poudre de piment, épice nationale de ce pays où elle sert notamment à aromatiser le goulasch.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apprika
- papirka
- papprika
- papriak
- paprikka
- paprkia
- paprrika
- parpika
- ppaprika
- pparika
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paprika - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "paprika", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).