Pollux
\pɔ.lyks\
The verdict
“Pollux” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,104. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,104
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frère divin de Castor, Hélène et Clytemnestre, fils de Zeus et Léda.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pollux · Pollux · French
Pollux · rank #44,104 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,104
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polluent
Nearest frequency peer: polluent (-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 « Pollux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plouc
plouc
55,900 corpus weight
- polluent
polluent
55,898 corpus weight
- Pollux
Pollux
55,897 corpus weight
- Pouilly
Pouilly
55,896 corpus weight
- pourvoyeur
pourvoyeur
55,895 corpus weight
- ppa
ppa
55,894 corpus weight
What this shows « Pollux » 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 | Pollux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.lyks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Pollux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Pollux (IPA \pɔ.lyks\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #44,104 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pollux, with forms such as "opllux", "plolux", and "polluxx". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "poux", "Polly", "poreux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Pollux, spelled P-O-L-L-U-X.
Definition
- 1Frère divin de Castor, Hélène et Clytemnestre, fils de Zeus et Léda.
- 2Plus brillante étoile de la constellation des Gémeaux.
- 3Satellite naturel de la planète Saturne.
- 4Sommet de plus de 4,000 mètres des Alpes valaisannes, en Suisse.
- 5Personnage canin de la série télévisée d’animation Le Manège enchanté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pollux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vois aussi Léda, l’épouse de Tyndare, Léda qui donna à ce héros deux fils magnanimes, Castor, habile à dompter les coursiers, et Pollux, si plein de force au pugilat.
Castor est en fait un système très complexe, composé de six étoiles en orbite les unes autour des autres tandis que Pollux est une étoile géante.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opllux
- plolux
- polluxx
- pollxu
- polulx
- polux
- ppollux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pollux - 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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Same letter count
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