peuple

/\pœpl\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#809

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

peuple is aFrenchnoun. It means: Multitude d’humains qui, vivant habituellement ensemble, partagent les mêmes coutumes. Pronounced \pœpl\. It ranks #809 in French word frequency. Often confused with poule and poupe.

Key facts for peuple
PropertyValue
Headwordpeuple
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pœpl\
Letters6
Frequency rank#809
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of peuple in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for peuple is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pœpl\. Corpus data places it at rank #809 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for peuple, with forms such as "epuple", "pepule", and "peulpe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "poule", "poupe", "poupée", 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 peuple, spelled P-E-U-P-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Multitude d’humains qui, vivant habituellement ensemble, partagent les mêmes coutumes.
  2. 2
    Habitants d’un État composé de diverses provinces, dont plusieurs ont été réunies par la conquête ou autrement, et sont régies par des lois, des coutumes particulières.
  3. 3
    Population fixe d’un pays, en ce qu’elle forme un ensemble, un tout solidaire sous le même gouvernement.
  4. 4
    Multitude d’humains qui n’habitent pas le même pays, mais qui ont une même origine, une même religion, etc.
  5. 5
    Population d’une même ville, d’un même bourg, d’un même village.
  6. 6
    Partie définie de la nation, considérée au point de vue social et politique.
  7. 7
    Partie la moins notable, la moins cultivée ou la moins riche des habitants d’une même ville, d’un même pays.
  8. 8
    Grand nombre de personnes considérées sous des aspects qui leur sont communs.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epuple,pepule,peulpe,peupel,peuplle,peupple,ppeuple,pueple

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for peuple

Misspelling Variants of "peuple"

epuple6pepule6peulpe6peupel6peuplle7peupple7ppeuple7pueple6
Misspelling Variants of "peuple"

Frequency rank: #809 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "peuple"?
"peuple" is spelled P-E-U-P-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pœpl\.
What does "peuple" mean?
As a noun, "peuple" means: Multitude d’humains qui, vivant habituellement ensemble, partagent les mêmes coutumes.
What words are commonly confused with "peuple"?
"peuple" is commonly confused with "poule", "poupe", "poupée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "peuple"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "peuple" is \pœpl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "peuple" come from?
"peuple" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.