pourcent
\puʁ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“pourcent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,429. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,429
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie sur cent. Le symbole est ‹ % ›.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourcent · pourcent · French
pourcent · rank #40,429 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,429
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poucet
Nearest frequency peer: poucet (-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 « pourcent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poi
poi
59,575 corpus weight
- pollens
pollens
59,574 corpus weight
- poucet
poucet
59,573 corpus weight
- pourcent
pourcent
59,572 corpus weight
- presentation
presentation
59,571 corpus weight
- prestance
prestance
59,570 corpus weight
What this shows « pourcent » 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 | pourcent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \puʁ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourcent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pourcent (IPA \puʁ.sɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,429 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pourcent, with forms such as "opurcent", "porucent", and "poucrent". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "purent", "pourtant", "pourront", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pourcent, spelled P-O-U-R-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Partie sur cent. Le symbole est ‹ % ›.
- 2Taux d’intérêt, du rapport d’une somme d’argent placée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pourcent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour tester les prévisions théoriques, nous avons calculé ces mêmes pourcents à partir des sections efficaces de productions d’électrons.
Quel est le pourcent qu’on vous offre ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opurcent
- porucent
- poucrent
- pourccent
- pourcennt
- pourcentt
- pourcetn
- pourcnet
- pourecnt
- pourrcent
- ppourcent
- puorcent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pourcent - 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 "pourcent", 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).