Perl
\pɛʁl\
The verdict
“Perl” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,346. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,346
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langage de programmation d’abord destiné à l’affichage et à l’impression de listes de lignes, en y ajoutant des lignes récapitulatives.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perl · Perl · French
Perl · rank #46,346 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,346
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perdrez
Nearest frequency peer: perdrez (-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 « Perl »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perchoir
perchoir
53,657 corpus weight
- perdrez
perdrez
53,656 corpus weight
- Perl
Perl
53,655 corpus weight
- pernicieux
pernicieux
53,654 corpus weight
- philanthrop…
philanthropique
53,653 corpus weight
- Philipe
Philipe
53,652 corpus weight
What this shows « Perl » 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 | Perl |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Perl »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Perl (IPA \pɛʁl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,346 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Langage de programmation d’abord destiné à l’affichage et à l’impression de listes de lignes, en y ajoutant des lignes récapitulatives.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Perl, with forms such as "eprl", "pelr", and "perll". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Pr", "PL", "peu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Perl, spelled P-E-R-L.
Definition
- 1Langage de programmation d’abord destiné à l’affichage et à l’impression de listes de lignes, en y ajoutant des lignes récapitulatives.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Perl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au fil des modifications, Perl est désormais devenu un langage universel.
La gestion des expressions régulières en Perl fait partie intégrante du langage, elle ne nécessite pas de fonctions bibliothèques ou de modules externes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprl
- pelr
- perll
- perrl
- pperl
- prel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Perl - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).