parfums
\paʁ.fœ̃\
The verdict
“parfums” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,092. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,092
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de parfum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parfums · parfums · French
parfums · rank #11,092 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,092
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH palette
Nearest frequency peer: palette (-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 « parfums »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- niche
niche
88,912 corpus weight
- NPD
NPD
88,911 corpus weight
- palette
palette
88,910 corpus weight
- parfums
parfums
88,909 corpus weight
- parlera
parlera
88,908 corpus weight
- Parodie
Parodie
88,907 corpus weight
What this shows « parfums » 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 | parfums |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.fœ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « parfums »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around parfums (IPA \paʁ.fœ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,092 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de parfum.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for parfums, with forms such as "aprfums", "pafrums", and "parffums". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "parus", "parues", "parfum", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 parfums, spelled P-A-R-F-U-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de parfum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how parfums appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je l’entraînai loin des oreilles indiscrètes et lui expliquai qu’elle pourrait rester ici, bossailler dans les spermes clapotants, répandre des boissons et des faux parfums, pour ses plus extraordinaires profits : « Certain qu’elle va te rapporter pendant au moins trois ans ! »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprfums
- pafrums
- parffums
- parfmus
- parfumms
- parfumss
- parfusm
- parrfums
- parufms
- pparfums
- prafums
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parfums - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).