peel
\ˈpil\
The verdict
“peel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,302) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,302
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écorce, pelure, peau (d’un fruit, d’un légume).
Corpus desk
Index FR-peel · peel · French
peel · rank #30,302 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,302
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patine
Nearest frequency peer: patine (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « peel »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- parvienne
parvienne
69,702 corpus weight
- pathétiques
pathétiques
69,701 corpus weight
- patine
patine
69,700 corpus weight
- peel
peel
69,699 corpus weight
- perpétrés
perpétrés
69,698 corpus weight
- peuplent
peuplent
69,697 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « peel » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | peel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpil\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #30,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « peel »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for peel is neighbouring look-alikes ("PL", "peu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈpil\. Frequency #30,302 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Écorce, pelure, peau (d’un fruit, d’un légume).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for peel, with forms such as "epel", "peell", and "pel". 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, "PL", "peu", "pen", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is peel, spelled P-E-E-L.
Definition
- 1Écorce, pelure, peau (d’un fruit, d’un légume).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epel
- peell
- pel
- ppeel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of peel - 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 "peel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).