proches
\pʁɔʃ\
The verdict
“proches” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,673. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,673
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de proche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proches · proches · French
proches · rank #1,673 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,673
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH principalement
Nearest frequency peer: principalement (-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 « proches »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- palais
palais
98,331 corpus weight
- passant
passant
98,330 corpus weight
- principalem…
principalement
98,329 corpus weight
- proches
proches
98,328 corpus weight
- reprendre
reprendre
98,327 corpus weight
- revoir
revoir
98,326 corpus weight
What this shows « proches » 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 | proches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « proches »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around proches (IPA \pʁɔʃ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,673 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de proche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for proches, with forms such as "porches", "pproches", and "prcohes". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "proies", "propres", "progrès", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is proches, spelled P-R-O-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de proche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how proches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Canal+ a été créée par l’un des plus proches confidents et conseillers de François Mitterrand, alors président de la République, André Rousselet.
Mitch pouvait continuer à proférer des énormités à son égard, elle comptait se conformer à son plan jusqu’à ce que les deux rejetons Kincaid deviennent proches.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porches
- pproches
- prcohes
- procches
- procehs
- prochess
- prochhes
- prochse
- prohces
- prroches
- rpoches
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of proches - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).