paquebot
\pak.bo\
The verdict
“paquebot” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,417. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,417
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Navire spécialisé dans le transport de personnes en haute mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paquebot · paquebot · French
paquebot · rank #21,417 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,417
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Ostende
Nearest frequency peer: Ostende (-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 « paquebot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Oregon
Oregon
78,587 corpus weight
- Ostende
Ostende
78,585 corpus weight
- paquebot
paquebot
78,584 corpus weight
- pathologique
pathologique
78,583 corpus weight
- pensionnaire
pensionnaire
78,582 corpus weight
- pierrot
pierrot
78,581 corpus weight
What this shows « paquebot » 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 | paquebot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pak.bo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paquebot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around paquebot (IPA \pak.bo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,417 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for paquebot, with forms such as "apquebot", "paqeubot", and "paqquebot". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "paquet", "paquebots", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is paquebot, spelled P-A-Q-U-E-B-O-T.
Definition
- 1Navire spécialisé dans le transport de personnes en haute mer.
- 2Grosse voiture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paquebot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le paquebot ne ſe méfiant plus de rien, & craignant de donner ſur les bancs pendant la nuit, avait fait baiſſer les voiles pour entrer hier matin de bonne heure dans le port d’Hellevœt.
MSC est un armateur italo-suisse dont tous les paquebots de croisière ont été construits à Saint-Nazaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apquebot
- paqeubot
- paqquebot
- paqubeot
- paquebbot
- paquebott
- paquebto
- paqueobt
- pauqebot
- ppaquebot
- pqauebot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paquebot - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).