pénales
\pe.nal\
The verdict
“pénales” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,732. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,732
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de pénal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-penales · pénales · French
pénales · rank #15,732 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,732
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH prévoyance
Nearest frequency peer: prévoyance (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pénales”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- protestante
protestante
84,272 corpus weight
- précaires
précaires
84,271 corpus weight
- prévoyance
prévoyance
84,270 corpus weight
- pénales
pénales
84,269 corpus weight
- pêches
pêches
84,268 corpus weight
- questionner
questionner
84,267 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pénales” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | pénales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pe.nal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pénales” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around pénales (IPA \pe.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,732 among 248,534 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de pénal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pénales, with forms such as "penales", "pnéales", and "ppénales". 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, "perles", "pentes", "pensés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pénales, spelled P-É-N-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de pénal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- penales
- pnéales
- ppénales
- péanles
- pénaels
- pénaless
- pénalles
- pénalse
- pénlaes
- pénnales
- épnales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pénales - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pénales", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.