postuler
\pɔs.ty.le\
The verdict
“postuler” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,763. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,763
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Solliciter, faire des démarches pour obtenir quelque chose, présenter sa candidature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postuler · postuler · French
postuler · rank #14,763 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,763
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH planifier
Nearest frequency peer: planifier (-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 « postuler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plaisance
plaisance
85,241 corpus weight
- plaisanterie
plaisanterie
85,240 corpus weight
- planifier
planifier
85,239 corpus weight
- postuler
postuler
85,238 corpus weight
- prestigieuse
prestigieuse
85,237 corpus weight
- prieur
prieur
85,236 corpus weight
What this shows « postuler » 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 | postuler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔs.ty.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « postuler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around postuler (IPA \pɔs.ty.le\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,763 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 postuler, with forms such as "opstuler", "posstuler", and "postluer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "posture", "postures", "poster", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is postuler, spelled P-O-S-T-U-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Solliciter, faire des démarches pour obtenir quelque chose, présenter sa candidature.
- 2Il se dit aussi en matière ecclésiastique.
- 3Poser comme postulat.
- 4S’occuper, au bénéfice de la partie que l’on représente en tant qu'avoué, des actes de procédure indispensables à l'instruction d’une affaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how postuler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Postuler un emploi, une place.
Postuler l’admission dans une maison religieuse.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opstuler
- posstuler
- postluer
- posttuler
- postuelr
- postulerr
- postuller
- postulre
- posutler
- potsuler
- ppostuler
- psotuler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of postuler - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "postuler", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).