postérieure
\pɔs.te.ʁjœʁ\
The verdict
“postérieure” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,528. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,528
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de postérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-posterieure · postérieure · French
postérieure · rank #20,528 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,528
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH posteriori
Nearest frequency peer: posteriori (-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 « postérieure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plongeon
plongeon
79,476 corpus weight
- posteriori
posteriori
79,474 corpus weight
- postérieure
postérieure
79,473 corpus weight
- pourboire
pourboire
79,472 corpus weight
- prestigieus…
prestigieuses
79,471 corpus weight
- prothèse
prothèse
79,470 corpus weight
What this shows « postérieure » 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 | postérieure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔs.te.ʁjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #20,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « postérieure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around postérieure (IPA \pɔs.te.ʁjœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,528 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de postérieur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for postérieure, with forms such as "opstérieure", "posstérieure", and "posterieure". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "postérieurs", "postérieures", "postérieur", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is postérieure, spelled P-O-S-T-É-R-I-E-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de postérieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how postérieure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un cas de Mausell Moulin (7), dans lequel le malade eut des hématémèses répétées à la suite d’une gastro-entérostomie postérieure avec entéro-anastomase.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opstérieure
- posstérieure
- posterieure
- postréieure
- posttérieure
- postéireure
- postéreiure
- postérierue
- postérieuer
- postérieurre
- postériuere
- postérrieure
- posétrieure
- potsérieure
- ppostérieure
- psotérieure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of postérieure - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "postérieure", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).