phénoménal
\fe.nɔ.me.nal\
The verdict
“phénoménal” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,469. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,469
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui relève du phénomène.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phenomenal · phénoménal · French
phénoménal · rank #26,469 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,469
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pff
Nearest frequency peer: pff (-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 « phénoménal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Perceval
Perceval
73,535 corpus weight
- perrier
perrier
73,534 corpus weight
- pff
pff
73,533 corpus weight
- phénoménal
phénoménal
73,532 corpus weight
- pieu
pieu
73,531 corpus weight
- piquent
piquent
73,530 corpus weight
What this shows « phénoménal » 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 | phénoménal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fe.nɔ.me.nal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « phénoménal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around phénoménal (IPA \fe.nɔ.me.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,469 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for phénoménal, with forms such as "hpénoménal", "phenomenal", and "phhénoménal". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "phénomène", "phénomènes", "phénoménale", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is phénoménal, spelled P-H-É-N-O-M-É-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui relève du phénomène.
- 2Ce qui est extraordinaire, étonnant, prodigieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how phénoménal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chez Kant il y a deux mondes : le monde phénoménal et le monde nouménal.
Le macaque ne dispose peut-être pas de conscience phénoménale au sens que nous donnons à ce terme : il ne peut pas rapporter, à lui-même ou à d’autres, le contenu de ses représentations mentales visuelles. — (Lionel Naccache, Le Nouvel Inconscient : Freud, le Christophe Colomb des neurosciences, Odile Jacob, 2009, page 340)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hpénoménal
- phenomenal
- phhénoménal
- phnéoménal
- phénmoénal
- phénnoménal
- phénomménal
- phénomnéal
- phénoméanl
- phénoménall
- phénoménla
- phénoménnal
- phénoémnal
- phéonménal
- pphénoménal
- péhnoménal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of phénoménal - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).