public
\py.blik\
The verdict
“public” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #382. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #382
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient au peuple dans son entier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-public · public · French
public · rank #382 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #382
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH I
Nearest frequency peer: I (-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 « public »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Europe
Europe
99,622 corpus weight
- fort
fort
99,621 corpus weight
- I
I
99,620 corpus weight
- public
public
99,619 corpus weight
- tard
tard
99,618 corpus weight
- ayant
ayant
99,617 corpus weight
What this shows « public » 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 | public |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \py.blik\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « public »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around public (IPA \py.blik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #382 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for public, with forms such as "pbulic", "ppublic", and "pubblic". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "publié", "publics", "publiée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is public, spelled P-U-B-L-I-C.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient au peuple dans son entier.
- 2Qui relève de l'État; étatique.
- 3Qui est commun ; à l’usage de tous.
- 4Qui est manifeste, su, connu de tout le monde.
- 5Ce qui a lieu en présence de tout le monde.
- 6Se dit d’une variable dont la portée n’est pas restreinte, et qui est donc visible depuis tout le programme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how public appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour mon compte, je n'ai pas manqué une occasion de dénoncer au bon sens public ces escroqueurs de renommée.
L’intérêt public.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pbulic
- ppublic
- pubblic
- pubilc
- publci
- publicc
- publlic
- pulbic
- upblic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of public - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "public", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).