procurer
\pʁɔ.ky.ʁe\
The verdict
“procurer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,102. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,102
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire obtenir à une personne quelque avantage par son crédit, par ses soins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-procurer · procurer · French
procurer · rank #7,102 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,102
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH portion
Nearest frequency peer: portion (-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 « procurer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plaint
plaint
92,901 corpus weight
- portion
portion
92,900 corpus weight
- procurer
procurer
92,899 corpus weight
- progresser
progresser
92,898 corpus weight
- provincial
provincial
92,897 corpus weight
- prudent
prudent
92,896 corpus weight
What this shows « procurer » 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 | procurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ky.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « procurer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around procurer (IPA \pʁɔ.ky.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,102 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for procurer, with forms such as "porcurer", "pprocurer", and "prcourer". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "prouver", "procureur", "procureurs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 procurer, spelled P-R-O-C-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire obtenir à une personne quelque avantage par son crédit, par ses soins.
- 2Faire obtenir à une personne ce dont elle a besoin ou ce qui lui est agréable.
- 3Employer ses soins, ses efforts pour qu’une chose soit.
- 4Donner ses soins à l’édition d’un livre.
- 5Être la cause de, en parlant des choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how procurer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Isaac s’arrêta devant la porte pour réfléchir aux moyens de se procurer l’entrée du château.
Les prêtres s’entendent à merveille pour procurer de riches dots aux nobles appauvris, au point qu’on a pu accuser l’Église de considérer le mariage comme un accouplement de gentilshommes vivant en marlous et de bourgeoises réduites au rôle de marmites.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porcurer
- pprocurer
- prcourer
- proccurer
- procruer
- procuerr
- procurerr
- procurre
- procurrer
- proucrer
- prrocurer
- rpocurer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of procurer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "procurer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).