pearl
\ˈpɝl\
The verdict
“pearl” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,201. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,201
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pearl · pearl · French
pearl · rank #16,201 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,201
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patrouilles
Nearest frequency peer: patrouilles (-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 « pearl »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- originelle
originelle
83,803 corpus weight
- partielles
partielles
83,802 corpus weight
- patrouilles
patrouilles
83,801 corpus weight
- pearl
pearl
83,800 corpus weight
- penchant
penchant
83,799 corpus weight
- pentagone
pentagone
83,798 corpus weight
What this shows « pearl » 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 | pearl |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɝl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pearl »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around pearl (IPA \ˈpɝl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,201 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Perle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pearl, with forms such as "eparl", "paerl", and "pealr". 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, "père", "peur", "peau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 pearl, spelled P-E-A-R-L.
Definition
- 1Perle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eparl
- paerl
- pealr
- pearll
- pearrl
- peral
- ppearl
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pearl - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pearl", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).