Paula
\po.la\
The verdict
“Paula” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,442. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,442
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin, variante de Paule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paula · Paula · French
Paula · rank #16,442 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,442
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parlerai
Nearest frequency peer: parlerai (-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 « Paula »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- palmer
palmer
83,562 corpus weight
- paradise
paradise
83,561 corpus weight
- parlerai
parlerai
83,560 corpus weight
- Paula
Paula
83,559 corpus weight
- perdra
perdra
83,558 corpus weight
- photographi…
photographier
83,557 corpus weight
What this shows « Paula » 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 | Paula |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \po.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Paula »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Paula (IPA \po.la\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,442 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Paula, with forms such as "apula", "palua", and "paual". 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, "pla", "pull", "puma", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Paula, spelled P-A-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin, variante de Paule.
- 2Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Paula appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est la raison pour laquelle Paula Forteza, ancienne députée (ex-LREM), a fait une proposition de loi, en mars dernier, visant à instaurer un parcours de soins commun aux femmes victimes d’une fin de grossesse involontaire.
Au centre, l’international écossais Sam Johnson enfilera le numéro 12, appuyé par le Fidjien Paula Walisoliso au numéro treize.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apula
- palua
- paual
- paulla
- ppaula
- puala
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Paula - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Paula", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).