principaux
\pʁɛ̃.si.po\
The verdict
“principaux” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,714. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,714
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de principal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-principaux · principaux · French
principaux · rank #1,714 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,714
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pourrais
Nearest frequency peer: pourrais (-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 « principaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- patron
patron
98,291 corpus weight
- permettant
permettant
98,290 corpus weight
- pourrais
pourrais
98,288 corpus weight
- principaux
principaux
98,287 corpus weight
- préparer
préparer
98,286 corpus weight
- revenus
revenus
98,284 corpus weight
What this shows « principaux » 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 | principaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɛ̃.si.po\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « principaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around principaux (IPA \pʁɛ̃.si.po\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,714 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de principal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for principaux, with forms such as "pirncipaux", "pprincipaux", and "pricnipaux". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "principal", "principale", "principauté", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is principaux, spelled P-R-I-N-C-I-P-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de principal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how principaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il suffit, dit ce savant chirurgien, d’énoncer les principaux arguments de cette régénération des chairs pour en finir avec une théorie que personne ne soutient aujourd’hui.
Appliqué contre la face externe de la branche du maxillaire inférieur, le masséter est court, large et très-épais, aplati d’un côté à l’autre, de forme irrégulièrement quadrilatère, formé de plans superposés dont deux principaux, qui sont parfaitement distincts, près de l’articulation temporo-maxillaire, par la direction un peu différente de leurs fibres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirncipaux
- pprincipaux
- pricnipaux
- princcipaux
- princiapux
- principauxx
- principaxu
- princippaux
- principuax
- princpiaux
- prinicpaux
- prinncipaux
- prnicipaux
- prrincipaux
- rpincipaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of principaux - 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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