péninsule
\pe.nɛ̃.syl\
The verdict
“péninsule” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,018. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,018
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contrée qui s’avance dans la mer et est unie au continent par un seul côté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peninsule · péninsule · French
péninsule · rank #8,018 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,018
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pénétrer
Nearest frequency peer: pénétrer (+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 « péninsule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- potter
potter
91,987 corpus weight
- prolonger
prolonger
91,985 corpus weight
- péninsule
péninsule
91,983 corpus weight
- pénétrer
pénétrer
91,982 corpus weight
- rappelant
rappelant
91,981 corpus weight
- rat
rat
91,980 corpus weight
What this shows « péninsule » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | péninsule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.nɛ̃.syl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « péninsule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around péninsule (IPA \pe.nɛ̃.syl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,018 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Contrée qui s’avance dans la mer et est unie au continent par un seul côté.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for péninsule, with forms such as "peninsule", "pnéinsule", and "ppéninsule". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 péninsule, spelled P-É-N-I-N-S-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Contrée qui s’avance dans la mer et est unie au continent par un seul côté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how péninsule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], de même l’Espagne et le Portugal. Cette dernière péninsule a été isolée du reste de l’Europe par la surrection de la chaîne des Pyrénées.
En 1980, l’Italie est d'ailleurs déjà celui des pays du Marché commun qui a les plus graves problèmes d'environnement : des égouts de Naples aux pollutions chimiques de la plaine du Pô, la péninsule exprime son incivisme glorieux. Dans une civilisation industrielle avancée, le chacun pour sa peau se paye au prix fort.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- peninsule
- pnéinsule
- ppéninsule
- péinnsule
- péninnsule
- péninslue
- péninssule
- péninsuel
- péninsulle
- péninusle
- pénisnule
- pénninsule
- pénnisule
- épninsule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of péninsule - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).