Paraguay
\pa.ʁa.ɡwɛ\
The verdict
“Paraguay” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,621. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,621
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays d’Amérique du Sud, entouré par le Brésil, la Bolivie et l’Argentine. Sa capitale est Asunción.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paraguay · Paraguay · French
Paraguay · rank #19,621 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,621
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pansement
Nearest frequency peer: pansement (-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 « Paraguay »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ouh
ouh
80,383 corpus weight
- paies
paies
80,382 corpus weight
- pansement
pansement
80,381 corpus weight
- Paraguay
Paraguay
80,380 corpus weight
- paresse
paresse
80,379 corpus weight
- partageait
partageait
80,378 corpus weight
What this shows « Paraguay » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Paraguay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.ɡwɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Paraguay »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Paraguay (IPA \pa.ʁa.ɡwɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,621 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 Paraguay, with forms such as "apraguay", "paarguay", and "paragauy". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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, 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 Paraguay, spelled P-A-R-A-G-U-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Amérique du Sud, entouré par le Brésil, la Bolivie et l’Argentine. Sa capitale est Asunción.
- 2Fleuve d’Amérique du Sud, passant par Asunción, qui donne son nom au pays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Paraguay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre-temps, quelques centaines d’entre eux ont remonté le Paraná et le Paraguay, se sont installés chez les Guaranis et ont fondé Asunción en 1537.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apraguay
- paarguay
- paragauy
- paragguay
- paraguayy
- paraguya
- paraugay
- pargauay
- parraguay
- pparaguay
- praaguay
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Paraguay - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Paraguay", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).