pénis
\pe.nis\
The verdict
“pénis” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,764. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,764
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organe mâle de copulation et de miction chez les mammifères, certains oiseaux ou d’autres animaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-penis · pénis · French
pénis · rank #8,764 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,764
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Rachel
Nearest frequency peer: Rachel (+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 “pénis”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- prélèvement
prélèvement
91,240 corpus weight
- puni
puni
91,239 corpus weight
- pénis
pénis
91,237 corpus weight
- Rachel
Rachel
91,236 corpus weight
- reconstruire
reconstruire
91,235 corpus weight
- regroupement
regroupement
91,234 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pénis” 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 | pénis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.nis\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “pénis” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pénis (IPA \pe.nis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,764 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Organe mâle de copulation et de miction chez les mammifères, certains oiseaux ou d’autres animaux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pénis, with forms such as "penis", "pnéis", and "ppénis". 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, "pis", "pes", "puis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pénis, spelled P-É-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Organe mâle de copulation et de miction chez les mammifères, certains oiseaux ou d’autres animaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pénis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Inversement, je ne puis me prononcer complètement sur la beauté esthétique du pénis adulte, ayant pu à peine en juger par les images et la sculpture. Il me semble que ce n’est guère pâmant au point de vu artistique, et que la force et la puissance doivent impressionner plus que la réelle beauté.
A Singapour, en 1967, au moment même où la chute de la fécondité atteint sa vitesse maximale, se déclenche une épidemie de Koro, manifestation hystérique spécifiquement masculine. Les individus touchés craignent et perçoivent une rétraction de leur pénis, qui menace, disent-ils, de disparaître dans l’abdomen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- penis
- pnéis
- ppénis
- péins
- péniss
- pénnis
- pénsi
- épnis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pénis - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pénis", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "pénis" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "pis". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #8,764 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.