principales
\pʁɛ̃.si.pal\
The verdict
“principales” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,330. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,330
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de principal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-principales · principales · French
principales · rank #2,330 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,330
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pouvant
Nearest frequency peer: pouvant (-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 « principales »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- philosophie
philosophie
97,674 corpus weight
- plateau
plateau
97,673 corpus weight
- pouvant
pouvant
97,672 corpus weight
- principales
principales
97,671 corpus weight
- professionn…
professionnelle
97,670 corpus weight
- quasi
quasi
97,669 corpus weight
What this shows « principales » 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 | principales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɛ̃.si.pal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #2,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « principales »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around principales (IPA \pʁɛ̃.si.pal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,330 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de principal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for principales, with forms such as "pirncipales", "pprincipales", and "pricnipales". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "principes", "principautés", "principal", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is principales, spelled P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de principal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how principales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ses principales références artistiques sont l’art de la Renaissance italienne, et surtout celui des préraphaélites dont elle se sent très proche…
Pour ce qui est de la forme à donner à cette étude, il apparaît que la chronologie impose quelques divisions principales.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirncipales
- pprincipales
- pricnipales
- princcipales
- princiaples
- principaels
- principaless
- principalles
- principalse
- principlaes
- princippales
- princpiales
- prinicpales
- prinncipales
- prnicipales
- prrincipales
- rpincipales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of principales - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).