probabilité
\pʁɔ.ba.bi.li.te\
The verdict
“probabilité” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,222. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,222
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité d’être probable ; vraisemblance ; apparence de vérité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-probabilite · probabilité · French
probabilité · rank #7,222 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #7,222
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prestige
Nearest frequency peer: prestige (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “probabilité”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- poursuites
poursuites
92,782 corpus weight
- poétique
poétique
92,781 corpus weight
- prestige
prestige
92,780 corpus weight
- probabilité
probabilité
92,779 corpus weight
- profondes
profondes
92,778 corpus weight
- protégés
protégés
92,777 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “probabilité” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | probabilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ba.bi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “probabilité” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around probabilité (IPA \pʁɔ.ba.bi.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,222 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for probabilité, with forms such as "porbabilité", "pprobabilité", and "prboabilité". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "probabilités", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 probabilité, spelled P-R-O-B-A-B-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité d’être probable ; vraisemblance ; apparence de vérité.
- 2Chance ; risque.
- 3Ensemble des règles d’après lesquelles on peut calculer le hasard relatif de la survenue des événements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how probabilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], tout concourait en même temps pour préparer la chute de la branche aînée des Bourbons; mais, de la probabilité à l'accomplissement du fait, il y avait loin , et l'on ne peut disconvenir que M. Thiers et tous les instigateurs du mouvement ne jouassent gros jeu.
Nos conclusions font état d'une faible probabilité pour que les flavonoïdes interviennent directement dans l'aptitude au volubilisme chez Periploca graeca L..
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porbabilité
- pprobabilité
- prboabilité
- proabbilité
- probabbilité
- probabiilté
- probabilite
- probabilitté
- probabiliét
- probabillité
- probabiltié
- probabliité
- probaiblité
- probbabilité
- probbailité
- prrobabilité
- rpobabilité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of probabilité - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "probabilité", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (17 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "probabilités". View pair
- 17 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #7,222 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.