pédophilie
\pe.dɔ.fi.li\
The verdict
“pédophilie” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,982. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,982
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attirance sexuelle, pathologique et criminelle, envers les personnes impubères ou en début de puberté, qui domine la sexualité d'un individu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pedophilie · pédophilie · French
pédophilie · rank #15,982 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,982
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pédophile
Nearest frequency peer: pédophile (-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 « pédophilie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- publiant
publiant
84,022 corpus weight
- python
python
84,021 corpus weight
- pédophile
pédophile
84,020 corpus weight
- pédophilie
pédophilie
84,019 corpus weight
- pénalités
pénalités
84,018 corpus weight
- quartz
quartz
84,016 corpus weight
What this shows « pédophilie » 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 | pédophilie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.dɔ.fi.li\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #15,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pédophilie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around pédophilie (IPA \pe.dɔ.fi.li\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,982 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Attirance sexuelle, pathologique et criminelle, envers les personnes impubères ou en début de puberté, qui domine la sexualité d'un individu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for pédophilie, with forms such as "pdéophilie", "pedophilie", and "ppédophilie". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "pédophile", "pédophiles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pédophilie, spelled P-É-D-O-P-H-I-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Attirance sexuelle, pathologique et criminelle, envers les personnes impubères ou en début de puberté, qui domine la sexualité d'un individu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pédophilie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], Mgr Scicluna, promoteur de justice de la Congrégation pour la doctrine de la foi, parlait à propos de l'ensemble des affaires d'abus sexuels impliquant un prêtre de « 10 % de cas de pédophilie au sens strict et de 90 % de cas qu'il convient davantage de qualifier d’éphébophilie, dont 60 % concernant des individus de même sexe et 30 % étant de caractè…
[Lewis Carroll] Personne n’eût osé accuser de pédophilie ce diacre austère qui ne se plaisait que dans la compagnie des petites filles, à qui il racontait des histoires merveilleuses qu’il illustrait par la suite.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pdéophilie
- pedophilie
- ppédophilie
- péddophilie
- pédohpilie
- pédophhilie
- pédophiile
- pédophilei
- pédophillie
- pédophliie
- pédopihlie
- pédopphilie
- pédpohilie
- péodphilie
- épdophilie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pédophilie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).