penthouse

\pɛn.tawz\

/\pɛn.tawz\/ noun

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The verdict

“penthouse” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,060. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#43,060
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
13
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appartement luxueux situé au dernier étage d’un immeuble.

Corpus desk

Index FR-penthouse · penthouse · French

penthouse · rank #43,060 · 13 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,060
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH perméable

Nearest frequency peer: perméable (+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 « penthouse »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « penthouse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for penthouse
PropertyValue
Headwordpenthouse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛn.tawz\
Letters9
Frequency rank#43,060
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « penthouse »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.penthousese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « perméable » (#43,061), « patrimoniales » (#43,058), « pharisiens » (#43,062). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « penthouse » est au #43,060. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around penthouse (IPA \pɛn.tawz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,060 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Appartement luxueux situé au dernier étage d’un immeuble.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for penthouse, with forms such as "epnthouse", "penhtouse", and "pennthouse". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is penthouse, spelled P-E-N-T-H-O-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Appartement luxueux situé au dernier étage d’un immeuble.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how penthouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Elle aurait pu être une héroïne durassienne déambulant, l'air mélancolique, dans la touffeur d'un penthouse tropical.
  2. Ces projets qui en valaient d’autres ont été abandonnés faute de moyens, le toit de l’Arche étant le penthouse le plus cher d’Europe.

Synonyms

appartement-terrasseattique

This word in other languages

ático(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • epnthouse
  • penhtouse
  • pennthouse
  • penthhouse
  • penthosue
  • penthoues
  • penthousse
  • penthuose
  • pentohuse
  • pentthouse
  • petnhouse
  • pnethouse
  • ppenthouse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of penthouse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

epnthouse2penhtouse2pennthouse1penthhouse1penthosue2penthoues2penthousse1penthuose2
Edit distance from "penthouse"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "penthouse"?
"penthouse" is spelled P-E-N-T-H-O-U-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛn.tawz\.
What does "penthouse" mean?
As a noun, "penthouse" means: Appartement luxueux situé au dernier étage d’un immeuble.
What are common misspellings of "penthouse"?
Common misspellings include "epnthouse", "penhtouse", "pennthouse", "penthhouse", "penthosue". The correct spelling is "penthouse".
How do you pronounce "penthouse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "penthouse" is \pɛn.tawz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "penthouse" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "penthouse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

perméable#43,061parutions#43,057partirais#43,056piétonnes#43,067

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

plancton13 variantspoudrière13 variantsprioriser13 variantspunissable13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list