périphérique
\pe.ʁi.fe.ʁik\
The verdict
“périphérique” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,770. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,770
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce électronique connectée à un système informatique, qui permet la transmission des entrées et des sorties entre l’utilisateur et le système ou entre ce dernier et un autre système compatible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peripherique · périphérique · French
périphérique · rank #10,770 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,770
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pète
Nearest frequency peer: pète (-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 “périphérique”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- prostituée
prostituée
89,234 corpus weight
- prélèvements
prélèvements
89,233 corpus weight
- pète
pète
89,232 corpus weight
- périphérique
périphérique
89,231 corpus weight
- racheté
racheté
89,230 corpus weight
- radicalement
radicalement
89,229 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “périphérique” 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 | périphérique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁi.fe.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #10,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “périphérique” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around périphérique (IPA \pe.ʁi.fe.ʁik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,770 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for périphérique, with forms such as "peripherique", "ppériphérique", and "préiphérique". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "périphériques", "périphérie", 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 périphérique, spelled P-É-R-I-P-H-É-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce électronique connectée à un système informatique, qui permet la transmission des entrées et des sorties entre l’utilisateur et le système ou entre ce dernier et un autre système compatible.
- 2Boulevard périphérique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how périphérique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est de nouveau une Ferrari qui hante le débat politique en Chine : celle, de couleur noire, au volant de laquelle Ling Gu, 20 ans, fils d’un autre cadre dirigeant du Parti communiste chinois (PCC), Ling Jihua, se serait tué à l’aube du 18 mars, accompagné de deux jeunes femmes sur un périphérique de Pékin.
Il a pour ambition de créer une place publique végétalisée, au lieu de l’actuel rond-point, une halle avec mezzanine pour les puces et un immeuble-pont de bureaux et d’hôtellerie-restauration, au-dessus du périphérique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- peripherique
- ppériphérique
- préiphérique
- péirphérique
- périhpérique
- périphhérique
- périphréique
- périphéirque
- périphériqeu
- périphériqque
- périphériuqe
- périphérqiue
- périphérrique
- péripphérique
- péripéhrique
- pérpihérique
- pérriphérique
- épriphérique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of périphérique - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "périphérique", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "périphérique". Here's where to go from here.
- "périphérique" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "périphériques". View pair
- 18 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #10,770 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.