paranormal
\pa.ʁa.nɔʁ.mal\
The verdict
“paranormal” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,470. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,470
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n'est pas explicable par la science.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paranormal · paranormal · French
paranormal · rank #29,470 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,470
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parades
Nearest frequency peer: parades (-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 « paranormal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- orgues
orgues
70,535 corpus weight
- outremer
outremer
70,534 corpus weight
- parades
parades
70,532 corpus weight
- paranormal
paranormal
70,531 corpus weight
- Parizeau
Parizeau
70,530 corpus weight
- participero…
participeront
70,528 corpus weight
What this shows « paranormal » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paranormal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.nɔʁ.mal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #29,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paranormal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around paranormal (IPA \pa.ʁa.nɔʁ.mal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,470 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui n'est pas explicable par la science.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for paranormal, with forms such as "apranormal", "paarnormal", and "parannormal". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 paranormal, spelled P-A-R-A-N-O-R-M-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui n'est pas explicable par la science.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paranormal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rhine lui-même, probablement honnête dans sa démarche, s’est semble-t-il adonné à « l’autotromperie ». On a un indice de son incroyable naïveté par le fait qu’il a cru pendant des années aux facultés paranormales d’une jument nommée Lady. Cette bête avait la capacité de répondre aux questions qu’on lui posait en choisissant avec son museau sur un clavier…
Bumper savait tout de la guerre et des pouvoirs paranormaux. Il attribuait sa survie aux divers pressentiments qui l'avaient assailli là-bas, dans la jungle. Il croyait dur comme fer au sixième sens, aux signes, aux présages. Comme beaucoup de vétérans, il était extrêmement superstitieux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apranormal
- paarnormal
- parannormal
- paranomral
- paranoraml
- paranormall
- paranormla
- paranormmal
- paranorrmal
- paranromal
- paraonrmal
- parnaormal
- parranormal
- pparanormal
- praanormal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paranormal - 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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).