ponce
\pɔ̃s\
The verdict
“ponce” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,309. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,309
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pierre extrêmement sèche, poreuse et légère, qui est un produit des volcans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ponce · ponce · French
ponce · rank #30,309 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,309
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pollué
Nearest frequency peer: pollué (-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 « ponce »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- piercing
piercing
69,695 corpus weight
- plaidoirie
plaidoirie
69,694 corpus weight
- pollué
pollué
69,693 corpus weight
- ponce
ponce
69,692 corpus weight
- ponctuels
ponctuels
69,691 corpus weight
- pondu
pondu
69,690 corpus weight
What this shows « ponce » 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 | ponce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ̃s\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ponce »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ponce (IPA \pɔ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,309 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ponce, with forms such as "opnce", "pnoce", and "pocne". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pose", "pont", "pote", and more, 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 ponce, spelled P-O-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Pierre extrêmement sèche, poreuse et légère, qui est un produit des volcans.
- 2Petit sachet qui sert à poncer et qui consiste en un morceau de tissu lâche, empli de poudre bleue ou noire, si l’on veut poncer sur une surface blanche, ou de poudre blanche, si l’on veut poncer sur une surface noire.
- 3Encre grasse découlant du sachet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ponce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ponce vitreuse.
Ponce commune ou pierre ponce.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opnce
- pnoce
- pocne
- poncce
- ponec
- ponnce
- pponce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ponce - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).