parfumerie
\paʁ.fym.ʁi\
The verdict
“parfumerie” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,297. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,297
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - L’art et l’industrie de la fabrication des parfums.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parfumerie · parfumerie · French
parfumerie · rank #30,297 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #30,297
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pamplemousse
Nearest frequency peer: pamplemousse (-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 « parfumerie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ovide
Ovide
69,707 corpus weight
- pamplemousse
pamplemousse
69,705 corpus weight
- parfumerie
parfumerie
69,704 corpus weight
- parmentier
parmentier
69,703 corpus weight
- parvienne
parvienne
69,702 corpus weight
- pathétiques
pathétiques
69,701 corpus weight
What this shows « parfumerie » 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 | parfumerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.fym.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « parfumerie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around parfumerie (IPA \paʁ.fym.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,297 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for parfumerie, with forms such as "aprfumerie", "pafrumerie", and "parffumerie". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "parfumée", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is parfumerie, spelled P-A-R-F-U-M-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1L’art et l’industrie de la fabrication des parfums.
- 2Magasins où l’on vend, non seulement des parfums, mais tout ce qui est nécessaire à la toilette (crèmes, savons, peignes, etc.).
- 3Produits vendus dans ces magasins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parfumerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Catherine de Médicis, riche Italienne et épouse du futur Henri II, roi de France, favorisera l’installation des parfumeurs italiens au détriment des parfumeurs espagnols. La parfumerie française naîtra du choc des parfumeries italiennes et espagnoles.
Ma femme adore aller à la parfumerie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprfumerie
- pafrumerie
- parffumerie
- parfmuerie
- parfuemrie
- parfumeire
- parfumerei
- parfumerrie
- parfummerie
- parfumreie
- parrfumerie
- parufmerie
- pparfumerie
- prafumerie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parfumerie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "parfumerie", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).