raiponce
\ʁɛ.pɔ̃s\
The verdict
“raiponce” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,127
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de Campanula rapunculus, plante potagère de la famille des Campanulaceae (Campanulacées), originaire du centre, du sud et de l’ouest de l’Europe, de la Turquie et du Maghreb, aux f...
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 | raiponce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ.pɔ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “raiponce” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around raiponce (IPA \ʁɛ.pɔ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,127 among 507,453 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for raiponce, with forms such as "ariponce", "raiopnce", and "raipnoce". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "raisonné", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is raiponce, spelled R-A-I-P-O-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de Campanula rapunculus, plante potagère de la famille des Campanulaceae (Campanulacées), originaire du centre, du sud et de l’ouest de l’Europe, de la Turquie et du Maghreb, aux fleurs lilas en clochettes, dont les racines, de même nom, sont blanches, tendres et se mangent en salade de même que les feuilles.
- 2Racine comestible de cette plante.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ariponce
- raiopnce
- raipnoce
- raipocne
- raiponcce
- raiponec
- raiponnce
- raipponce
- rapionce
- riaponce
- rraiponce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of raiponce - 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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Using “raiponce”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-A-I-P-O-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁɛ.pɔ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “raisonné” - see the side-by-side comparison. raiponce vs raisonné
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.