porosité
\po.ʁo.zi.te\
The verdict
“porosité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,983. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,983
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité d’un corps considéré comme poreux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porosite · porosité · French
porosité · rank #38,983 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,983
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pony
Nearest frequency peer: pony (-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 « porosité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pommettes
pommettes
61,021 corpus weight
- pondent
pondent
61,020 corpus weight
- pony
pony
61,019 corpus weight
- porosité
porosité
61,018 corpus weight
- positionnée
positionnée
61,017 corpus weight
- POW
POW
61,015 corpus weight
What this shows « porosité » 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 | porosité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \po.ʁo.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « porosité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around porosité (IPA \po.ʁo.zi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,983 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for porosité, with forms such as "oprosité", "poorsité", and "poroisté". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "profité", "probité", "parasite", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 porosité, spelled P-O-R-O-S-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité d’un corps considéré comme poreux.
- 2Qualité d’un corps considéré comme poreux.
- 3Qualité d’un corps considéré comme poreux.
- 4Transfert entre des entités distinctes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porosité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les modifications des propriétés physiques du sol, causées par les systèmes de labourage, peuvent entraîner une augmentation de la densité du sol, une plus grande résistance à la pénétration des racines et une diminution de la porosité, en se caractérisant par une couche compacte en-dessous de la couche labourée.
Définition de la porosité locale et du volume élémentaire représentatif.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprosité
- poorsité
- poroisté
- porosite
- porositté
- porosiét
- porossité
- porostié
- porrosité
- porsoité
- pporosité
- proosité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porosité - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).