prodige
\pʁɔ.diʒ\
The verdict
“prodige” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,217. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,217
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Événement surprenant qui arrive contre le cours ordinaire des choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prodige · prodige · French
prodige · rank #16,217 · 10 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,217
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH projecteurs
Nearest frequency peer: projecteurs (+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 « prodige »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poussés
poussés
83,788 corpus weight
- pouviez
pouviez
83,787 corpus weight
- prodige
prodige
83,784 corpus weight
- projecteurs
projecteurs
83,783 corpus weight
- présentatio…
présentations
83,782 corpus weight
- rabbin
rabbin
83,780 corpus weight
What this shows « prodige » 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 | prodige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.diʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prodige »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around prodige (IPA \pʁɔ.diʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,217 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for prodige, with forms such as "pordige", "pprodige", and "prdoige". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "proie", "protégé", "profité", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prodige, spelled P-R-O-D-I-G-E.
Definition
- 1Événement surprenant qui arrive contre le cours ordinaire des choses.
- 2Chose extraordinaire.
- 3Personne extraordinaire.
- 4Personne qui excelle dans son domaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prodige appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n'aime pas le surnaturel, dit Zadig ; les gens et les livres à prodiges m'ont toujours déplu.
Vous avez entendu parler des prodiges qui se sont passés en l'église de cette paroisse, pendant le saint Sacrifice de la messe, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pordige
- pprodige
- prdoige
- proddige
- prodgie
- prodieg
- prodigge
- proidge
- prrodige
- rpodige
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prodige - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prodige", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).