pernod
\pɛʁ.no\
The verdict
“pernod” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,849. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,849
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boisson alcoolisée à base d’absinthe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pernod · pernod · French
pernod · rank #49,849 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,849
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perfectible
Nearest frequency peer: perfectible (-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 « pernod »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pastèques
pastèques
50,155 corpus weight
- peep
peep
50,154 corpus weight
- perfectible
perfectible
50,153 corpus weight
- pernod
pernod
50,152 corpus weight
- perverses
perverses
50,151 corpus weight
- Petitjean
Petitjean
50,150 corpus weight
What this shows « pernod » 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 | pernod |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.no\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pernod »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pernod (IPA \pɛʁ.no\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,849 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pernod, with forms such as "eprnod", "penrod", and "perndo". 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, "prod", "perso", "Pérou", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pernod, spelled P-E-R-N-O-D.
Definition
- 1Boisson alcoolisée à base d’absinthe.
- 2Boisson anisée et alcoolisée.
- 3Liquide évoquant la couleur d'un apéritif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pernod appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était surtout le dimanche, après la messe, devant un pernod « bien tassé » qu’il fallait le voir et l’entendre : […]. Nul n’échappait à sa dent […].
Je ressentais une assez vive inquiétude, car cette boisson [l'absinthe], par sa couleur et son odeur, me rappelait étrangement le terrible Pernod qui avait réduit notre cher Bouzigue, pendant quelques heures, à l’état d’un guignol hagard et bégayant des insanités.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprnod
- penrod
- perndo
- pernnod
- pernodd
- perond
- perrnod
- ppernod
- prenod
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pernod - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).