playlist
\plɛj.list\
The verdict
“playlist” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,561. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,561
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de morceaux de musique sélectionnés par une station de radio pour les diffuser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-playlist · playlist · French
playlist · rank #18,561 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,561
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piston
Nearest frequency peer: piston (-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 « playlist »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Phobie
Phobie
81,443 corpus weight
- piston
piston
81,441 corpus weight
- playlist
playlist
81,440 corpus weight
- potager
potager
81,439 corpus weight
- pourriture
pourriture
81,438 corpus weight
- prirent
prirent
81,437 corpus weight
What this shows « playlist » 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 | playlist |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plɛj.list\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « playlist »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around playlist (IPA \plɛj.list\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,561 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for playlist, with forms such as "lpaylist", "palylist", and "plalyist". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "playlists", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is playlist, spelled P-L-A-Y-L-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de morceaux de musique sélectionnés par une station de radio pour les diffuser.
- 2Liste de morceaux de musique ou de vidéos, que l’on peut écouter ou visionner dans l’ordre ou de façon aléatoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how playlist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’inscription de tout nouveau titre sur la playlist d’une radio commerciale ne se fait pas au hasard.
La playlist d’Inter — Venez découvrir les choix musicaux défendus par France Inter !
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaylist
- palylist
- plalyist
- playilst
- playlisst
- playlistt
- playlits
- playllist
- playlsit
- playylist
- pllaylist
- plyalist
- pplaylist
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of playlist - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "playlist", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).