people
\pi.pɔl\
The verdict
“people” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,123. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,123
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne du monde des arts, du sport, de la haute société, d'une téléréalité, etc., suivie par les médias et suscitant un intérêt du public en tant que célébrité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-people · people · French
people · rank #6,123 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,123
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paysans
Nearest frequency peer: paysans (-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 « people »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- panier
panier
93,881 corpus weight
- partagent
partagent
93,880 corpus weight
- paysans
paysans
93,879 corpus weight
- people
people
93,878 corpus weight
- PL
PL
93,877 corpus weight
- plages
plages
93,876 corpus weight
What this shows « people » 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 | people |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.pɔl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « people »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around people (IPA \pi.pɔl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,123 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for people, with forms such as "epople", "peolpe", and "peopel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "pole", "pepe", "pope", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is people, spelled P-E-O-P-L-E.
Definition
- 1Personne du monde des arts, du sport, de la haute société, d'une téléréalité, etc., suivie par les médias et suscitant un intérêt du public en tant que célébrité.
- 2(au masculin singulier) Thématique des stars et autres personnalités publiques traitées sous l’angle (souvent considéré comme racoleur) de leur vie privée par les médias.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how people appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et ce parti pris peut sembler judicieux : un acteur, un sportif, un people, n’est-ce pas un peu segmentant ?
Les restaurants aiment les people, c’est avec la plus grande attention qu’ils suivent l’actualité culturelle et mondaine, ils savent que la présence de people dans leur établissement peut avoir un réel pouvoir d’attraction sur le segment de population abrutie-riche dont ils recherchent en tout premier lieu la clientèle ; et les people, en général, aiment…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epople
- peolpe
- peopel
- peoplle
- peopple
- pepole
- poeple
- ppeople
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of people - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).