pareil
\pa.ʁɛj\
The verdict
“pareil” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,271. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,271
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui présente une forte ressemblance ou similitude ; qui est égal ou semblable, en parlant de deux personnes ou de deux choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pareil · pareil · French
pareil · rank #1,271 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,271
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH nouvel
Nearest frequency peer: nouvel (-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 « pareil »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lignes
lignes
98,733 corpus weight
- malade
malade
98,732 corpus weight
- nouvel
nouvel
98,731 corpus weight
- pareil
pareil
98,730 corpus weight
- parlé
parlé
98,729 corpus weight
- privé
privé
98,728 corpus weight
What this shows « pareil » 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 | pareil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.ʁɛj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pareil »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pareil (IPA \pa.ʁɛj\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,271 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pareil, with forms such as "apreil", "paeril", and "pareill". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pari", "parl", "Paris", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pareil, spelled P-A-R-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1Qui présente une forte ressemblance ou similitude ; qui est égal ou semblable, en parlant de deux personnes ou de deux choses.
- 2Tel, de cette nature, de cette espèce.
- 3S’utilise pour désigner un accord, voire une affirmation.
- 4De même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pareil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et de son côté, le récent hiver a roussi les oliviers, dépenaillé les grands mimosas, pareils à des mâts dont les haubans sont coupés, et où pendent des paquets de vieilles voilures déralinguées.
Ce qu’elle chantait – ah ! la fatale et maudite chanson ! –, c’était une vieille romance larmoyante et tendre, pareille à celles que les aveugles nasillent dans les rues.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apreil
- paeril
- pareill
- pareli
- pariel
- parreil
- ppareil
- praeil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pareil - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).