perpendiculaire
\pɛʁ.pɑ̃.di.ky.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“perpendiculaire” has 22 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,433. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,433
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tombe à angles droits, en formant un angle droit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perpendiculaire · perpendiculaire · French
perpendiculaire · rank #25,433 · 22 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #25,433
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 22 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pendentif
Nearest frequency peer: pendentif (-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 « perpendiculaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- passerelles
passerelles
74,571 corpus weight
- paysagiste
paysagiste
74,570 corpus weight
- pendentif
pendentif
74,569 corpus weight
- perpendicul…
perpendiculaire
74,568 corpus weight
- persil
persil
74,567 corpus weight
- petra
petra
74,566 corpus weight
What this shows « perpendiculaire » 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 | perpendiculaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɛʁ.pɑ̃.di.ky.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #25,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « perpendiculaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around perpendiculaire (IPA \pɛʁ.pɑ̃.di.ky.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,433 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui tombe à angles droits, en formant un angle droit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for perpendiculaire, with forms such as "eprpendiculaire", "peprendiculaire", and "perepndiculaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "perpendiculaires", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is perpendiculaire, spelled P-E-R-P-E-N-D-I-C-U-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui tombe à angles droits, en formant un angle droit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how perpendiculaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des closiers labourent des champs perpendiculaires.
Des fentes perpendiculaires au plan des strates et se coupant sous des angles variables partagent encore la masse de la roche et en favorisent l’exploitation.
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprpendiculaire
- peprendiculaire
- perepndiculaire
- perpedniculaire
- perpendciulaire
- perpenddiculaire
- perpendicculaire
- perpendicluaire
- perpendicualire
- perpendiculaier
- perpendiculairre
- perpendicularie
- perpendiculiare
- perpendicullaire
- perpendiuclaire
- perpenidculaire
- perpenndiculaire
- perpnediculaire
- perppendiculaire
- perrpendiculaire
- pperpendiculaire
- prependiculaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of perpendiculaire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).