popular
\ˈpɒp.jʊ.lə\
The verdict
“popular” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,977. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,977
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Populaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-popular · popular · French
popular · rank #37,977 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,977
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poor
Nearest frequency peer: poor (-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 « popular »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pluvieuse
pluvieuse
62,027 corpus weight
- poignardée
poignardée
62,026 corpus weight
- poor
poor
62,025 corpus weight
- popular
popular
62,024 corpus weight
- poussiéreux
poussiéreux
62,023 corpus weight
- prisés
prisés
62,022 corpus weight
What this shows « popular » 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 | popular |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈpɒp.jʊ.lə\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « popular »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around popular (IPA \ˈpɒp.jʊ.lə\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,977 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Populaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for popular, with forms such as "oppular", "popluar", and "poppular". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "polar", "populace", "populaire", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is popular, spelled P-O-P-U-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Populaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how popular appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Long and chequered history of Manchester United Football Club (fondly called ManU by the band of ardent supporters) brings to life one of the most popular clichés in contemporary marketing, which is, 'Think global, act local'.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oppular
- popluar
- poppular
- popualr
- popularr
- popullar
- populra
- pouplar
- ppopular
- ppoular
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of popular - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).