populace
\pɔ.py.las\
The verdict
“populace” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,481. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,481
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bas peuple, le commun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-populace · populace · French
populace · rank #29,481 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,481
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pommade
Nearest frequency peer: pommade (-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 « populace »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- planétaires
planétaires
70,523 corpus weight
- PN
PN
70,522 corpus weight
- pommade
pommade
70,521 corpus weight
- populace
populace
70,520 corpus weight
- primates
primates
70,519 corpus weight
- princess
princess
70,518 corpus weight
What this shows « populace » 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 | populace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.py.las\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « populace »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around populace (IPA \pɔ.py.las\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,481 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bas peuple, le commun.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for populace, with forms such as "oppulace", "popluace", and "poppulace". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "popular", "populaire", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is populace, spelled P-O-P-U-L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Bas peuple, le commun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how populace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À mesure que la population s'accroît, les moyens de subsistance deviennent moins faciles et bientôt l'État n'est plus composé que d'une vile populace que quelques hommes puissants tiennent sous le joug.
C'est sans doute que le beaujolais nouveau pue trop la sueur d'une populace avinée de nostalgie du vin de soif, contrairement à la noble modernité de ces flacons de pauillac et de saint-émilion, qui n'en sont d'ailleurs plus, tant la poussière de chêne neuf saturant leurs tanins laisse croire qu'ils ont été élevés dans des cercueils.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oppulace
- popluace
- poppulace
- popualce
- populacce
- populaec
- populcae
- popullace
- pouplace
- ppopulace
- ppoulace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of populace - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "populace"?
What does "populace" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "populace"?
How do you pronounce "populace"?
What language does "populace" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "populace", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).