penalty
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,718
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
penalty is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sanction infligée en cas de faute grave commise dans la surface de réparation, consistant en un tir au but accordé à l’équipe adverse et effectué du point de réparation par un joueur contre le gard... Pronounced \pe.nal.ti\. It ranks #9,718 in French word frequency. Often confused with Peralta and pénal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penalty |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.nal.ti\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for penalty is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.nal.ti\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,718 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for penalty, with forms such as "epnalty", "peanlty", and "penallty". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Peralta", "pénal", "pénale", 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is penalty, spelled P-E-N-A-L-T-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sanction infligée en cas de faute grave commise dans la surface de réparation, consistant en un tir au but accordé à l’équipe adverse et effectué du point de réparation par un joueur contre le gardien de but seul et sans défenseur.
- 2Ce tir lui-même.
- 3Dans une course hippique, cheval dont on est pratiquement sûr qu'il gagnera l'épreuve ou finira à une bonne place.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epnalty,peanlty,penallty,penaltty,penaltyy,penalyt,penatly,penlaty,pennalty,pnealty,ppenalty
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for penalty
Misspelling Variants of "penalty"
Frequency rank: #9,718 in French
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