poursuivi
\puʁ.sɥi.vi\
The verdict
“poursuivi” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,127
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est chassé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poursuivi · poursuivi · French
poursuivi · rank #6,127 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,127
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pouces
Nearest frequency peer: pouces (-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 « poursuivi »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- PL
PL
93,877 corpus weight
- plages
plages
93,876 corpus weight
- pouces
pouces
93,875 corpus weight
- poursuivi
poursuivi
93,874 corpus weight
- promenade
promenade
93,873 corpus weight
- prêté
prêté
93,872 corpus weight
What this shows « poursuivi » 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 | poursuivi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \puʁ.sɥi.vi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poursuivi »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around poursuivi (IPA \puʁ.sɥi.vi\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,127 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est chassé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for poursuivi, with forms such as "opursuivi", "porusuivi", and "pourrsuivi". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "poursuivre", "poursuivie", "poursuivis", 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. The correct French form is poursuivi, spelled P-O-U-R-S-U-I-V-I.
Definition
- 1Qui est chassé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poursuivi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le harle se rue à nouveau sur sa victime, la saisit l'espace d'une ou deux secondes encore, provoquant un grand remous, puis le petit grèbe parvient à prendre la fuite vers les roseaux où il se dissimule, vivement poursuivi.
On doit accepter les erreurs articulatoires car leur correction articulatoire n’est pas ici le but poursuivi.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opursuivi
- porusuivi
- pourrsuivi
- poursiuvi
- pourssuivi
- poursuiiv
- poursuivvi
- poursuvii
- pourusivi
- pousruivi
- ppoursuivi
- puorsuivi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poursuivi - 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 "poursuivi", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).