périple
\pe.ʁipl\
The verdict
“périple” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,125. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,125
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Navigation autour d’une mer ou autour des côtes d’un pays, d’une partie du monde, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-periple · périple · French
périple · rank #14,125 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,125
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pédale
Nearest frequency peer: pédale (-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 « périple »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Pt
Pt
85,879 corpus weight
- puzzle
puzzle
85,878 corpus weight
- pédale
pédale
85,877 corpus weight
- périple
périple
85,876 corpus weight
- raciale
raciale
85,875 corpus weight
- rattaché
rattaché
85,874 corpus weight
What this shows « périple » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « périple »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around périple (IPA \pe.ʁipl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,125 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for périple, with forms such as "periple", "ppériple", and "préiple". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "perle", "peuple", "purple", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is périple, spelled P-É-R-I-P-L-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how périple appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le périple d’Hannon.
Arrien nous a laissé un périple du Pont-Euxin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- periple
- ppériple
- préiple
- péirple
- périlpe
- péripel
- périplle
- péripple
- pérpile
- pérriple
- épriple
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of périple - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "périple", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).