postérieures
\pɔs.te.ʁjœʁ\
The verdict
“postérieures” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,985. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,985
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de postérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-posterieures · postérieures · French
postérieures · rank #23,985 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,985
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH POS
Nearest frequency peer: POS (-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 « postérieures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- porteuses
porteuses
76,019 corpus weight
- portons
portons
76,018 corpus weight
- POS
POS
76,017 corpus weight
- postérieures
postérieures
76,016 corpus weight
- presbytère
presbytère
76,015 corpus weight
- prescrits
prescrits
76,014 corpus weight
What this shows « postérieures » 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 | postérieures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔs.te.ʁjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #23,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « postérieures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around postérieures (IPA \pɔs.te.ʁjœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,985 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de postérieur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for postérieures, with forms such as "opstérieures", "posstérieures", and "posterieures". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "postérieurs", "postérieur", "postérieure", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is postérieures, spelled P-O-S-T-É-R-I-E-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de postérieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how postérieures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’articulation du genou offre des surfaces articulaires incongruentes dont la stabilité est assurée par un système capsulo-ligamentaire associant des formations médiales, latérales, postérieures et centrales.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opstérieures
- posstérieures
- posterieures
- postréieures
- posttérieures
- postéireures
- postéreiures
- postérierues
- postérieuers
- postérieuress
- postérieurres
- postérieurse
- postériueres
- postérrieures
- posétrieures
- potsérieures
- ppostérieures
- psotérieures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of postérieures - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).