pourchasser
\puʁ.ʃa.se\
The verdict
“pourchasser” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,865. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,865
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poursuivre ou rechercher avec obstination, avec ardeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourchasser · pourchasser · French
pourchasser · rank #49,865 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,865
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH potache
Nearest frequency peer: potache (-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 « pourchasser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pontet
pontet
50,139 corpus weight
- portèrent
portèrent
50,138 corpus weight
- potache
potache
50,137 corpus weight
- pourchasser
pourchasser
50,136 corpus weight
- precision
precision
50,135 corpus weight
- prep
prep
50,134 corpus weight
What this shows « pourchasser » 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 | pourchasser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \puʁ.ʃa.se\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #49,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourchasser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around pourchasser (IPA \puʁ.ʃa.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,865 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Poursuivre ou rechercher avec obstination, avec ardeur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for pourchasser, with forms such as "opurchasser", "poruchasser", and "poucrhasser". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pourchassé", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pourchasser, spelled P-O-U-R-C-H-A-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Poursuivre ou rechercher avec obstination, avec ardeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pourchasser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne les trouvant pas, ils en concluraient qu’il les avait gardés et ils le pourchasseraient. Il n’avait donc qu’à rester tranquillement à l’affût…
M. Donnet, son père, a été maire de Caen pendant toute la durée du gouvernement de Juillet. Pourchassé sous le second Empire il perdra tout son avoir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opurchasser
- poruchasser
- poucrhasser
- pourcahsser
- pourcchasser
- pourchaser
- pourchasesr
- pourchasserr
- pourchassre
- pourchhasser
- pourchsaser
- pourhcasser
- pourrchasser
- ppourchasser
- puorchasser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pourchasser - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).