penguins
\ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪnz\
The verdict
“penguins” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,465. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,465
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de penguin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-penguins · penguins · French
penguins · rank #26,465 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #26,465
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Paule
Nearest frequency peer: Paule (-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 « penguins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- oserais
oserais
73,539 corpus weight
- package
package
73,538 corpus weight
- Paule
Paule
73,537 corpus weight
- penguins
penguins
73,536 corpus weight
- Perceval
Perceval
73,535 corpus weight
- perrier
perrier
73,534 corpus weight
What this shows « penguins » 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 | penguins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪnz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « penguins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around penguins (IPA \ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪnz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,465 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de penguin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for penguins, with forms such as "epnguins", "pegnuins", and "pengguins". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pingouins", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 penguins, spelled P-E-N-G-U-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de penguin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnguins
- pegnuins
- pengguins
- pengiuns
- penguinns
- penguinss
- penguisn
- pengunis
- pennguins
- penugins
- pneguins
- ppenguins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of penguins - 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 "penguins", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).