paulo

adv

The verdict

“paulo” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,593. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,593
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un peu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-paulo · paulo · French

paulo · rank #8,593 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,593
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH passif

Nearest frequency peer: passif (-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 « paulo »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « paulo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

paulo vs pull
60% similar
paulo vs pause
60% similar
paulo vs poule
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for paulo
PropertyValue
Headwordpaulo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
Letters5
Frequency rank#8,593
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « paulo »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.paulose place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « passif » (#8,592), « ordinaires » (#8,591), « opposent » (#8,590). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « paulo » est au #8,593. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around paulo, anadverb. Corpus frequency is #8,593 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Un peu.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for paulo, with forms such as "apulo", "paluo", and "paullo". 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, "pull", "pause", "poule", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is paulo, spelled P-A-U-L-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Un peu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how paulo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] si paulo se movit extra numerum, […]
  2. […] Paulo majora canamus […]

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apulo
  • paluo
  • paullo
  • pauol
  • ppaulo
  • pualo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paulo - 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.

apulo2paluo2paullo1pauol2ppaulo1pualo2
Edit distance from "paulo"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paulo"?
"paulo" is spelled P-A-U-L-O.
What does "paulo" mean?
As an adverb, "paulo" means: Un peu.
What words are commonly confused with "paulo"?
"paulo" is commonly confused with "pull", "pause", "poule". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "paulo" come from?
"paulo" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "paulo", 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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list