postulat
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,038
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
postulat is aFrenchnoun. It means: Proposition que le géomètre demande qu’on lui accorde au commencement d’une discussion, bien qu’elle ne soit ni démontrée ni évidente, parce qu’il ne voit pas d’autre principe auquel il puisse ratt... Pronounced \pɔs.ty.la\. Often confused with postulé and postuler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postulat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔs.ty.la\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for postulat is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔs.ty.la\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,038 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for postulat, with forms such as "opstulat", "posstulat", and "postluat". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "postulé", "postuler", "postulats", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is postulat, spelled P-O-S-T-U-L-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Proposition que le géomètre demande qu’on lui accorde au commencement d’une discussion, bien qu’elle ne soit ni démontrée ni évidente, parce qu’il ne voit pas d’autre principe auquel il puisse rattacher une vérité ou des vérités qu’on ne saurait mettre en doute. Autrement dit une proposition première indémontrable ou indémontrée, et que le mathématicien demande au lecteur d’accepter. Le postulat n’est pas forcément évident, contrairement à l’axiome.
- 2Tout principe d’un système déductif qui n’est ni une définition ni une proposition assez évidente pour qu’il soit impossible de la mettre en doute.
- 3Période qui précède le noviciat, dans un ordre ou une communauté religieuse.
- 4Désigne aussi le centre d’hébergement, la maison où résident les postulants.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opstulat,posstulat,postluat,posttulat,postualt,postulatt,postullat,postulta,posutlat,potsulat,ppostulat,psotulat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for postulat
Misspelling Variants of "postulat"
Frequency rank: #22,038 in French
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