paranormale
\pa.ʁa.nɔʁ.mal\
The verdict
“paranormale” is uncommon French (frequency #76,871 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,871
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin singulier de paranormal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paranormale · paranormale · French
paranormale · rank #76,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,871
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH pardonnerez
Nearest frequency peer: pardonnerez (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “paranormale”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- palefrenier
palefrenier
23,134 corpus weight
- palud
palud
23,133 corpus weight
- paranormale
paranormale
23,130 corpus weight
- pardonnerez
pardonnerez
23,129 corpus weight
- Parménide
Parménide
23,128 corpus weight
- paroissien
paroissien
23,127 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “paranormale” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paranormale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.nɔʁ.mal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paranormale” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
paranormale is uncommon French at frequency #76,871 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.ʁa.nɔʁ.mal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de paranormal.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for paranormale, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is paranormale, spelled P-A-R-A-N-O-R-M-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de paranormal.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "paranormale", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.