posthume

\pɔs.tym\

/\pɔs.tym\/ adj

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The verdict

“posthume” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,242. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,242
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont la naissance a lieu après la mort de son père.

Corpus desk

Index FR-posthume · posthume · French

posthume · rank #20,242 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,242
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH portière

Nearest frequency peer: portière (-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 « posthume »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « posthume » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

posthume vs posture
75% similar
posthume vs postulé
63% similar
posthume vs posthumes
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for posthume
PropertyValue
Headwordposthume
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pɔs.tym\
Letters8
Frequency rank#20,242
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « posthume »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.posthumese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « portière » (#20,241), « potion » (#20,243), « Pontoise » (#20,240). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « posthume » est au #20,242. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around posthume (IPA \pɔs.tym\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,242 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for posthume, with forms such as "opsthume", "poshtume", and "possthume". 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, "posture", "postulé", "posthumes", 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 posthume, spelled P-O-S-T-H-U-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dont la naissance a lieu après la mort de son père.
  2. 2
    Se dit d’une œuvre qui paraît pour la première fois après la mort de l’auteur (ou, dans le cas d'un opus de musique, qui s'interprète pour la première fois après la mort du compositeur).
  3. 3
    Se dit aussi de ce qui se produit après la mort d’une personne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how posthume appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Deux ans après elle accoucha d’une fille posthume, Blanche de France, qui fut promise le 16 juillet 1370 à Jean d’Aragon, duc de Gironde, & qui mourut l’année d’après à Beziers, en allant en Espagne.
  2. Nous bornerons ici nos observations critiques, et en répétant que cet ouvrage posthume de Benjamin Constant ne contient pas une histoire complète, ne présente pas les idées et les faits dans leur face principale et leur racine profonde, mais plutôt en opposition et en saillie, nous nous serons complètement acquittés du devoir d’être sincères.

Antonyms

anthume

This word in other languages

posthumous(English)póstuma(Español)póstumo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opsthume
  • poshtume
  • possthume
  • posthhume
  • posthmue
  • posthuem
  • posthumme
  • postthume
  • postuhme
  • potshume
  • pposthume
  • psothume

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of posthume - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

opsthume2poshtume2possthume1posthhume1posthmue2posthuem2posthumme1postthume1
Edit distance from "posthume"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "posthume"?
"posthume" is spelled P-O-S-T-H-U-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔs.tym\.
What does "posthume" mean?
As an adjective, "posthume" means: Dont la naissance a lieu après la mort de son père.
What words are commonly confused with "posthume"?
"posthume" is commonly confused with "posture", "postulé", "posthumes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "posthume"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "posthume" is \pɔs.tym\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "posthume" come from?
"posthume" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "posthume", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

portière#20,241Pontoise#20,240prouvant#20,248ramènent#20,254

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

natalité12 variantssauraient12 variantsmillésime12 variantsmarchais12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list