principe
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,007
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
principe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Commencement ; origine ; source ; cause première. Pronounced \pʁɛ̃.sip\. It ranks #1,007 in French word frequency. Often confused with principes and prince.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | principe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɛ̃.sip\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for principe is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɛ̃.sip\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,007 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for principe, with forms such as "pirncipe", "pprincipe", and "pricnipe". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "principes", "prince", "princier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is principe, spelled P-R-I-N-C-I-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Commencement ; origine ; source ; cause première.
- 2Première règle d’un art ou d'une discipline.
- 3Première et plus évidente des vérités qui peut être connue par la raison.
- 4Règle de fonctionnement.
- 5Loi que certaines observations ont d’abord rendue vraisemblable et à laquelle on a donné ensuite la plus grande généralité.
- 6Élément constitutif des corps.
- 7(Souvent au pluriel) Règle de conduite d'une personne ou d'un groupe.
- 8Idée abstraite énonçant une règle et pouvant se concrétiser de manières diverses.
- 9Base de la morale, de la religion.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pirncipe,pprincipe,pricnipe,princcipe,princiep,princippe,princpie,prinicpe,prinncipe,prnicipe,prrincipe,rpincipe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for principe
Misspelling Variants of "principe"
Frequency rank: #1,007 in French
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