puzzle
\pœ.zœl\
The verdict
“puzzle” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,123. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,123
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu de patience composé de petites pièces à contours irréguliers que l’on doit assembler pour reconstituer une image.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puzzle · puzzle · French
puzzle · rank #14,123 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,123
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pt
Nearest frequency peer: Pt (-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 « puzzle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- préparatoire
préparatoire
85,880 corpus weight
- Pt
Pt
85,879 corpus weight
- puzzle
puzzle
85,878 corpus weight
- pédale
pédale
85,877 corpus weight
- périple
périple
85,876 corpus weight
- raciale
raciale
85,875 corpus weight
What this shows « puzzle » 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 | puzzle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pœ.zœl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « puzzle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around puzzle (IPA \pœ.zœl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,123 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for puzzle, with forms such as "ppuzzle", "puzle", and "puzlze". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "puzzles", "purple", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is puzzle, spelled P-U-Z-Z-L-E.
Definition
- 1Jeu de patience composé de petites pièces à contours irréguliers que l’on doit assembler pour reconstituer une image.
- 2Ensemble de choses semblables en imbrication étroite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puzzle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le rôle du faiseur de puzzle est difficile à définir. Dans la plupart des cas – pour tous les puzzles en carton en particulier – les puzzles sont fabriqués à la machine et leur découpage n'obéit à aucune nécessité : une presse coupante réglée selon un dessin immuable tranche les plaques de carton d'une façon toujours identique ; le véritable amateur rejet…
La délégitimation des observances laïques, l’usure de morales d’État – celle des droits de l’homme a trop servi pour rester disponible –, le décri de la Patrie, du Progrès comme l'assurance d'un toujours mieux […], toutes ces érosions ont peu à peu sapé le crédit des credo qui unifiait tant bien que mal notre archipel, ce puzzle de méfiances communautaires.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppuzzle
- puzle
- puzlze
- puzzel
- puzzlle
- pzuzle
- upzzle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puzzle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).