princess
\ˈpɹɪn.sɛs\
The verdict
“princess” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,483. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,483
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Princesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-princess · princess · French
princess · rank #29,483 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,483
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH primates
Nearest frequency peer: primates (-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 « princess »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pommade
pommade
70,521 corpus weight
- populace
populace
70,520 corpus weight
- primates
primates
70,519 corpus weight
- princess
princess
70,518 corpus weight
- procédant
procédant
70,517 corpus weight
- prodigieux
prodigieux
70,516 corpus weight
What this shows « princess » 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 | princess |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɹɪn.sɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « princess »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around princess (IPA \ˈpɹɪn.sɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,483 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Princesse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for princess, with forms such as "pirncess", "pprincess", and "pricness". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "process", "princesse", "princesses", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 princess, spelled P-R-I-N-C-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Princesse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirncess
- pprincess
- pricness
- princcess
- princses
- prinecss
- prinncess
- prnicess
- prrincess
- rpincess
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of princess - 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.
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 "princess", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).