poursuit
\puʁ.sɥi\
The verdict
“poursuit” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,096. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,096
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de poursuivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poursuit · poursuit · French
poursuit · rank #3,096 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,096
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piscine
Nearest frequency peer: piscine (-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 « poursuit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perspective
perspective
96,907 corpus weight
- piscine
piscine
96,906 corpus weight
- poursuit
poursuit
96,905 corpus weight
- pouvaient
pouvaient
96,904 corpus weight
- présidence
présidence
96,903 corpus weight
- rappel
rappel
96,902 corpus weight
What this shows « poursuit » 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 | poursuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \puʁ.sɥi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poursuit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around poursuit (IPA \puʁ.sɥi\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,096 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de poursuivre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for poursuit, with forms such as "opursuit", "porusuit", and "pourrsuit". 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, "poussait", "poursuite", "poursuivi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is poursuit, spelled P-O-U-R-S-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de poursuivre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poursuit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand le train est lancé, on ne l’arrête plus : voici notre bonhomme au Courrier de Paris. Il rédige sa chronique après le spectacle. Puis Minerve, Le Canard Enchaîné » où il coincouine sa critique littéraire, La Gazette des lettres où il peaufine sa manière d’écrire : « le stylo c’est l’audace » et poursuit « Ventre à terre. A pleins étriers », son comba…
À partir de là, le chemin se poursuit sur une autre rando, le circuit des puits et des fontaines, menant jusqu’à Marsac, en Charente.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opursuit
- porusuit
- pourrsuit
- poursiut
- pourssuit
- poursuitt
- poursuti
- pourusit
- pousruit
- ppoursuit
- puorsuit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poursuit - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).