punchline
\pœnʃ.lajn\
The verdict
“punchline” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,095. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,095
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Phrase choc, réplique percutante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-punchline · punchline · French
punchline · rank #43,095 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,095
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puig
Nearest frequency peer: puig (-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 « punchline »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prêcheurs
prêcheurs
56,909 corpus weight
- puel
puel
56,908 corpus weight
- puig
puig
56,907 corpus weight
- punchline
punchline
56,906 corpus weight
- punissable
punissable
56,905 corpus weight
- périssables
périssables
56,904 corpus weight
What this shows « punchline » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | punchline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pœnʃ.lajn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « punchline »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around punchline (IPA \pœnʃ.lajn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,095 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for punchline, with forms such as "pnuchline", "ppunchline", and "pucnhline". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is punchline, spelled P-U-N-C-H-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Phrase choc, réplique percutante.
- 2Phrase d’un rap, porteuse d’un message fort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how punchline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fort de ce succès, Bonnell est devenu un élu cathodique, friand des punchlines assénées tout sourire à longueur de médias.
Il reprend aussi les plus célèbres punchlines « du Président des riches ».
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pnuchline
- ppunchline
- pucnhline
- puncchline
- punchhline
- punchilne
- punchlien
- punchlinne
- punchlline
- punchlnie
- punclhine
- punhcline
- punnchline
- upnchline
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of punchline - 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 "punchline", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).