phosphate
\fɔs.fat\
The verdict
“phosphate” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,713. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,713
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Combinaison de l’acide phosphorique avec une base.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phosphate · phosphate · French
phosphate · rank #24,713 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,713
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perfusion
Nearest frequency peer: perfusion (-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 « phosphate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pend
pend
75,291 corpus weight
- pensionnat
pensionnat
75,290 corpus weight
- perfusion
perfusion
75,289 corpus weight
- phosphate
phosphate
75,288 corpus weight
- physiciens
physiciens
75,287 corpus weight
- pictures
pictures
75,286 corpus weight
What this shows « phosphate » 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 | phosphate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔs.fat\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #24,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « phosphate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around phosphate (IPA \fɔs.fat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,713 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 phosphate, with forms such as "hposphate", "phhosphate", and "phopshate". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "phosphore", "phosphates", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is phosphate, spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Combinaison de l’acide phosphorique avec une base.
- 2Composé organophosphoré dérivé de l'acide phosphorique ; on parle parfois de « phosphate organique ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how phosphate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’échantillon dont on a soumis une partie à l’analyse, contenant du phosphate de plomb, il est très-probable que l’acide phosphorique que l'on a trouvé représente une certaine quantité de phosphate mélangé au plomb-gomme.
Les éléments dominants de ses alluvions sont les silex dérivés de l'argile à silex, des nodules de phosphate de chaux, de quartz, et des fragments de grès: […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hposphate
- phhosphate
- phopshate
- phoshpate
- phospahte
- phosphaet
- phosphatte
- phosphhate
- phosphtae
- phospphate
- phossphate
- phsophate
- pohsphate
- pphosphate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of phosphate - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).