profusion
\pʁɔ.fy.zjɔ̃\
The verdict
“profusion” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,832
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande abondance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-profusion · profusion · French
profusion · rank #26,832 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,832
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pollutions
Nearest frequency peer: pollutions (-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 « profusion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pleurez
pleurez
73,172 corpus weight
- PNL
PNL
73,171 corpus weight
- pollutions
pollutions
73,170 corpus weight
- profusion
profusion
73,169 corpus weight
- préjudiciab…
préjudiciable
73,167 corpus weight
- préoccupent
préoccupent
73,166 corpus weight
What this shows « profusion » 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 | profusion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fy.zjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « profusion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around profusion (IPA \pʁɔ.fy.zjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,832 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for profusion, with forms such as "porfusion", "pprofusion", and "prfousion". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "provision", "propulsion", "perfusion", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 profusion, spelled P-R-O-F-U-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Grande abondance.
- 2Excès de libéralité ou de dépense.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how profusion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; les charpentes du plafond, laissées en relief, étaient décorées d’une profusion de sculptures.
La profusion de détails gracieux ne nuit en rien à l'ensemble qui conserve toute sa majesté.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porfusion
- pprofusion
- prfousion
- proffusion
- profsuion
- profuison
- profusino
- profusionn
- profusoin
- profussion
- proufsion
- prrofusion
- rpofusion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of profusion - 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 "profusion", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).