principalement
\pʁɛ̃.si.pal.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“principalement” has 22 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,672
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D'une façon principale, par-dessus tout.
Corpus desk
Index FR-principalement · principalement · French
principalement · rank #1,672 · 22 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,672
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 22 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passant
Nearest frequency peer: passant (-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 « principalement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ouverte
ouverte
98,332 corpus weight
- palais
palais
98,331 corpus weight
- passant
passant
98,330 corpus weight
- principalem…
principalement
98,329 corpus weight
- proches
proches
98,328 corpus weight
- reprendre
reprendre
98,327 corpus weight
What this shows « principalement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | principalement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pʁɛ̃.si.pal.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #1,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « principalement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around principalement (IPA \pʁɛ̃.si.pal.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #1,672 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "D'une façon principale, par-dessus tout.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for principalement, with forms such as "pirncipalement", "pprincipalement", and "pricnipalement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is principalement, spelled P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D'une façon principale, par-dessus tout.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how principalement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il [Dieu] a ordonné dans les nations les familles particulières dont elles sont composées, mais principalement celles qui devaient gouverner ces nations,
Des carrières assez importantes existent dans une autre partie de cet étage inférieur, principalement à Laifour, à Anchamps, et dans le ravin de la Pille.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirncipalement
- pprincipalement
- pricnipalement
- princcipalement
- princiaplement
- principaelment
- principaleemnt
- principalemennt
- principalementt
- principalemetn
- principalemment
- principalemnet
- principallement
- principalmeent
- principlaement
- princippalement
- princpialement
- prinicpalement
- prinncipalement
- prnicipalement
- prrincipalement
- rpincipalement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of principalement - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).