pascal
\pas.kal\
The verdict
“pascal” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,347. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,347
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à la pâque des juifs ou des chrétiens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pascal · pascal · French
pascal · rank #3,347 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,347
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH papiers
Nearest frequency peer: papiers (-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 « pascal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- organisée
organisée
96,657 corpus weight
- paie
paie
96,656 corpus weight
- papiers
papiers
96,655 corpus weight
- pascal
pascal
96,654 corpus weight
- physiques
physiques
96,653 corpus weight
- pierres
pierres
96,652 corpus weight
What this shows « pascal » 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 | pascal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pas.kal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pascal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pascal (IPA \pas.kal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,347 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui appartient à la pâque des juifs ou des chrétiens.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pascal, with forms such as "apscal", "pacsal", and "pasacl". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "paypal", "pastel", "pascale", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pascal, spelled P-A-S-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à la pâque des juifs ou des chrétiens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pascal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cierge pascal, grand comme un mât de vaisseau, pèse deux mille cinquante livres. Le chandelier de bronze qui le supporte est une espèce de colonne de la place Vendôme ; il est copié sur le chandelier du temple de Jérusalem, ainsi qu’on le voit figurer sur les bas-reliefs de l’arc de Titus ; tout est dans cette proportion grandiose.
De même si beaucoup, si la plupart, pour ne pas dire tous, négligeaient depuis de longues années leur devoir pascal, il ne s’en trouvait pas un qui, à l’heure dernière, n’appelât à son chevet ce brave vieux bougre qui les avait vus vivre […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apscal
- pacsal
- pasacl
- pascall
- pasccal
- pascla
- passcal
- ppascal
- psacal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pascal - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).