peuple
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peuple |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pœpl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Multitude d’humains qui, vivant habituellement ensemble, partagent les mêmes coutumes.
- 2Habitants 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.
- 3Population fixe d’un pays, en ce qu’elle forme un ensemble, un tout solidaire sous le même gouvernement.
- 4Multitude d’humains qui n’habitent pas le même pays, mais qui ont une même origine, une même religion, etc.
- 5Population d’une même ville, d’un même bourg, d’un même village.
- 6Partie définie de la nation, considérée au point de vue social et politique.
- 7Partie la moins notable, la moins cultivée ou la moins riche des habitants d’une même ville, d’un même pays.
- 8Grand 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"
Frequency rank: #809 in French
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