périple
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,125
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
périple is aFrenchnoun. It means: Navigation autour d’une mer ou autour des côtes d’un pays, d’une partie du monde, etc. Pronounced \pe.ʁipl\. Often confused with perle and peuple.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | périple |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pe.ʁipl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for périple is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.ʁipl\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,125 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for périple, with forms such as "periple", "ppériple", and "préiple". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "perle", "peuple", "purple", 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 périple, spelled P-É-R-I-P-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Navigation autour d’une mer ou autour des côtes d’un pays, d’une partie du monde, etc.
- 2Récit d’une navigation de ce genre.
- 3Long voyage, comportant de multiples étapes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: periple,ppériple,préiple,péirple,périlpe,péripel,périplle,péripple,pérpile,pérriple,épriple
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for périple
Misspelling Variants of "périple"
Frequency rank: #14,125 in French
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