populaire

\pɔ.py.lɛʁ\

/\pɔ.py.lɛʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“populaire” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,337. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,337
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne le peuple ; qui appartient au peuple.

Corpus desk

Index FR-populaire · populaire · French

populaire · rank #1,337 · 12 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,337
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH musée

Nearest frequency peer: musée (-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 « populaire »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « populaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

populaire vs popular
78% similar
populaire vs populaires
90% similar
populaire vs popularité
70% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for populaire
PropertyValue
Headwordpopulaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pɔ.py.lɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,337
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « populaire »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).populairese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « musée » (#1,336), « prince » (#1,338), « mari » (#1,335). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « populaire » est au #1,337. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around populaire (IPA \pɔ.py.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,337 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for populaire, with forms such as "oppulaire", "popluaire", and "poppulaire". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "popular", "populaires", "popularité", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is populaire, spelled P-O-P-U-L-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui concerne le peuple ; qui appartient au peuple.
  2. 2
    Qui concerne le peuple ; qui appartient au peuple.
  3. 3
    Qui est répandu jusque dans le peuple.
  4. 4
    Dont la souveraineté est dans les mains du peuple, en parlant de forme de gouvernement, d'État.
  5. 5
    Qui fait impression sur le peuple, sur la multitude.
  6. 6
    Qui est conforme aux goûts du peuple.
  7. 7
    Qui plait au peuple.
  8. 8
    Qui recherche et qui se concilie avec l’affectation du peuple.
  9. 9
    Qui a les manières, le langage, etc., du peuple.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how populaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais quand tout fut fini, les magnats accoururent des quatre coins de la Pologne, en qualité de sauveurs de la patrie. Les sauveurs sont la plaie des révolutions populaires.
  2. Naguère, la masse populaire, résignée à sa vie primitive, obscure, souvent sordide, n’avait point conscience d’être malheureuse.

This word in other languages

popular(English)popular(Español)volkstümlich(Deutsch)popular(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oppulaire
  • popluaire
  • poppulaire
  • popualire
  • populaier
  • populairre
  • popularie
  • populiare
  • popullaire
  • pouplaire
  • ppopulaire
  • ppoulaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of populaire - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

oppulaire2popluaire2poppulaire1popualire2populaier2populairre1popularie2populiare2
Edit distance from "populaire"

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 "populaire"?
"populaire" is spelled P-O-P-U-L-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔ.py.lɛʁ\.
What does "populaire" mean?
As an adjective, "populaire" means: Qui concerne le peuple ; qui appartient au peuple.
What words are commonly confused with "populaire"?
"populaire" is commonly confused with "popular", "populaires", "popularité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "populaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "populaire" is \pɔ.py.lɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "populaire" come from?
"populaire" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "populaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

lendemain#1,332découvrir#1,328supérieur#1,349caractère#1,320

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

province12 variantsressources12 variantssurprise12 variantscapacité12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list