périphérie
\pe.ʁi.fe.ʁi\
The verdict
“périphérie” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,902. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,902
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Courbe ou surface limitant une aire plane ou un volume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peripherie · périphérie · French
périphérie · rank #9,902 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,902
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puy
Nearest frequency peer: puy (-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 « périphérie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- provinciale
provinciale
90,102 corpus weight
- prédécesseur
prédécesseur
90,101 corpus weight
- puy
puy
90,100 corpus weight
- périphérie
périphérie
90,099 corpus weight
- racontent
racontent
90,098 corpus weight
- remets
remets
90,097 corpus weight
What this shows « périphérie » 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 | périphérie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁi.fe.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « périphérie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around périphérie (IPA \pe.ʁi.fe.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,902 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for périphérie, with forms such as "peripherie", "ppériphérie", and "préiphérie". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "périphérique", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 périphérie, spelled P-É-R-I-P-H-É-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Courbe ou surface limitant une aire plane ou un volume.
- 2Ceinture d’une ville et ses faubourgs.
- 3Proximité.
- 4En Grèce, unité géographique et administrative équivalente à une région.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how périphérie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tour lyonnaise UAP est déconstruite étage par étage, sous une coiffe , pour limiter les nuisances de ce chantier situé en périphérie immédiate des halles de Lyon et d'une école notamment.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- peripherie
- ppériphérie
- préiphérie
- péirphérie
- périhpérie
- périphhérie
- périphréie
- périphéire
- périphérei
- périphérrie
- péripphérie
- péripéhrie
- pérpihérie
- pérriphérie
- épriphérie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of périphérie - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).