people

/\pi.pɔl\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,123

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

17

similar word pairs

people is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced \pi.pɔl\. It ranks #6,123 in French word frequency. Often confused with pole and pepe.

Key facts for people
PropertyValue
Headwordpeople
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pi.pɔl\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,123
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of people in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for people is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.pɔl\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,123 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for people, with forms such as "epople", "peolpe", and "peopel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is people, spelled P-E-O-P-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 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.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epople,peolpe,peopel,peoplle,peopple,pepole,poeple,ppeople

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for people

Misspelling Variants of "people"

epople6peolpe6peopel6peoplle7peopple7pepole6poeple6ppeople7
Misspelling Variants of "people"

Frequency rank: #6,123 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "people"?
"people" is spelled P-E-O-P-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pi.pɔl\.
What does "people" mean?
As a noun, "people" means: 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.
What words are commonly confused with "people"?
"people" is commonly confused with "pole", "pepe", "pope". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "people"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "people" is \pi.pɔl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "people" come from?
"people" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.