process
\pʁɔ.sɛs\
The verdict
“process” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,446. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,446
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des étapes ou des réglages, secrets ou non, qui permettent le bon fonctionnement d’un procédé industriel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-process · process · French
process · rank #16,446 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,446
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prescriptions
Nearest frequency peer: prescriptions (-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 « process »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perdra
perdra
83,558 corpus weight
- photographi…
photographier
83,557 corpus weight
- prescriptio…
prescriptions
83,556 corpus weight
- process
process
83,555 corpus weight
- productive
productive
83,554 corpus weight
- produira
produira
83,553 corpus weight
What this shows « process » 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 | process |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.sɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « process »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around process (IPA \pʁɔ.sɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,446 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble des étapes ou des réglages, secrets ou non, qui permettent le bon fonctionnement d’un procédé industriel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for process, with forms such as "porcess", "pprocess", and "prcoess". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "proies", "projets", "proches", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 process, spelled P-R-O-C-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des étapes ou des réglages, secrets ou non, qui permettent le bon fonctionnement d’un procédé industriel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how process appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La construction de maisons en hêtre n’est toujours pas un débouché, il faudra encore attendre quelques années avant d’obtenir un process satisfaisant.
Dietox, Kitchendiet ou Detox Delight ont bien compris le système et proposent des programmes d’un à six jours à base de jus, soupes et, parfois, de plats préparés, afin de, justement, faciliter encore le process et le rendre plus accessible.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porcess
- pprocess
- prcoess
- proccess
- procses
- proecss
- prrocess
- rpocess
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of process - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).