Parcoursup
\paʁ.kuʁ.syp\
The verdict
“Parcoursup” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,335. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,335
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plate-forme Web destinée à recueillir et gérer les vœux d'affectation des futurs étudiants de l'enseignement supérieur français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-parcoursup · Parcoursup · French
Parcoursup · rank #46,335 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,335
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pardonnent
Nearest frequency peer: pardonnent (+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 « Parcoursup »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- P4
P4
53,669 corpus weight
- paierai
paierai
53,668 corpus weight
- Parcoursup
Parcoursup
53,666 corpus weight
- pardonnent
pardonnent
53,665 corpus weight
- partageront
partageront
53,664 corpus weight
- Pasolini
Pasolini
53,663 corpus weight
What this shows « Parcoursup » 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 | Parcoursup |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.kuʁ.syp\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #46,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Parcoursup »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Parcoursup (IPA \paʁ.kuʁ.syp\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #46,335 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plate-forme Web destinée à recueillir et gérer les vœux d'affectation des futurs étudiants de l'enseignement supérieur français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Parcoursup, with forms such as "aprcoursup", "pacroursup", and "parccoursup". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "parcouru", "parcourus", "parcourue", and more, 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 Parcoursup, spelled P-A-R-C-O-U-R-S-U-P.
Definition
- 1Plate-forme Web destinée à recueillir et gérer les vœux d'affectation des futurs étudiants de l'enseignement supérieur français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Parcoursup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Les instituts de formation en soins infirmiers (Ifsi) sont les plus demandés sur Parcoursup : en 2022, 100 000 candidats y ont postulé pour 28 000 places ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprcoursup
- pacroursup
- parccoursup
- parcorusup
- parcourrsup
- parcourspu
- parcourssup
- parcoursupp
- parcourusp
- parcousrup
- parcuorsup
- parocursup
- parrcoursup
- pparcoursup
- pracoursup
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Parcoursup - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).