probablement
\pʁɔ.ba.blə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“probablement” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,040 in French word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #1,040
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - D’une façon probable ; selon les probabilités.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | probablement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ba.blə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #1,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “probablement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for probablement is 12 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.ba.blə.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,040 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "D’une façon probable ; selon les probabilités.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for probablement, with forms such as "porbablement", "pprobablement", and "prboablement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented 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 probablement, spelled P-R-O-B-A-B-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une façon probable ; selon les probabilités.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porbablement,pprobablement,prboablement,proabblement,probabblement,probabelment,probableemnt,probablemennt,probablementt,probablemetn,probablemment,probablemnet,probabllement,probablmeent,probalbement,probbablement,probbalement,prrobablement,rpobablement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of probablement - 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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Using “probablement”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-O-B-A-B-L-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁɔ.ba.blə.mɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.