paresseuse
\pa.ʁɛ.søz\
The verdict
“paresseuse” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,908. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,908
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme ou fille qui fait montre de paresse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paresseuse · paresseuse · French
paresseuse · rank #40,908 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #40,908
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paraphrase
Nearest frequency peer: paraphrase (-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 « paresseuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- papale
papale
59,096 corpus weight
- paralysés
paralysés
59,095 corpus weight
- paraphrase
paraphrase
59,094 corpus weight
- paresseuse
paresseuse
59,093 corpus weight
- parieurs
parieurs
59,092 corpus weight
- passionnant…
passionnantes
59,091 corpus weight
What this shows « paresseuse » 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 | paresseuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁɛ.søz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #40,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paresseuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around paresseuse (IPA \pa.ʁɛ.søz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,908 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for paresseuse, with forms such as "apresseuse", "paersseuse", and "paresesuse". 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. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "paresseux", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is paresseuse, spelled P-A-R-E-S-S-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme ou fille qui fait montre de paresse.
- 2Nom vernaculaire de la fausse-chenille (tenthrède) du rosier (Arge ochropus), qui se meut très lentement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paresseuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eh ! mais il est depuis quinze jours dans le lit d’Arsène, dit la petite Niseron en éclatant de rire ; si cette grande paresseuse faisait son lit, elle l’aurait trouvé…
Les bons plans anti-cellulite des paresseuses
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apresseuse
- paersseuse
- paresesuse
- pareseuse
- paressesue
- paresseues
- paresseusse
- paressuese
- parresseuse
- parseseuse
- pparesseuse
- praesseuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paresseuse - 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 "paresseuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).