périnée
\pe.ʁi.ne\
The verdict
“périnée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,658. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,658
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Région qui est entre l’anus et les parties sexuelles, partagée en deux parties égales par une ligne médiane dite le raphé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perinee · périnée · French
périnée · rank #44,658 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,658
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH pépinières
Nearest frequency peer: pépinières (-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 “périnée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pygmées
pygmées
55,346 corpus weight
- pyramidal
pyramidal
55,345 corpus weight
- pépinières
pépinières
55,344 corpus weight
- périnée
périnée
55,343 corpus weight
- QPC
QPC
55,341 corpus weight
- quitteront
quitteront
55,340 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “périnée” 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 | périnée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁi.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “périnée” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around périnée (IPA \pe.ʁi.ne\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,658 among 248,534 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Région qui est entre l’anus et les parties sexuelles, partagée en deux parties égales par une ligne médiane dite le raphé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for périnée, with forms such as "perinee", "ppérinée", and "préinée". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "priée", "prince", "privée", 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 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 périnée, spelled P-É-R-I-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Région qui est entre l’anus et les parties sexuelles, partagée en deux parties égales par une ligne médiane dite le raphé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- perinee
- ppérinée
- préinée
- péirnée
- périneé
- périnnée
- périéne
- pérniée
- pérrinée
- éprinée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of périnée - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "périnée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
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.