progéniture

\pʁɔ.ʒe.ni.tyʁ\

/\pʁɔ.ʒe.ni.tyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“progéniture” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,951. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,951
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
17
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Ce qu’un homme, une femme, ce qu’un animal a engendré.

Corpus desk

Index FR-progeniture · progéniture · French

progéniture · rank #19,951 · 17 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,951
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH prononcent

Nearest frequency peer: prononcent (+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 « progéniture »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « progéniture » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for progéniture
PropertyValue
Headwordprogéniture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɔ.ʒe.ni.tyʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#19,951
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « progéniture »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).progéniturese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « prononcent » (#19,952), « propulsé » (#19,953), « prétendants » (#19,954). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « progéniture » est au #19,951. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around progéniture (IPA \pʁɔ.ʒe.ni.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,951 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for progéniture, with forms such as "porgéniture", "pprogéniture", and "prgoéniture". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is progéniture, spelled P-R-O-G-É-N-I-T-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    ou Ce qu’un homme, une femme, ce qu’un animal a engendré.
  2. 2
    Produit de l’évolution d’une chose que l’on a créée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how progéniture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je suis pour Hélène ce que, dans l’ordre naturel, une mère doit être pour sa progéniture.
  2. Ainsi, j’observe parmi mes patients des parents qui donnent beaucoup à leurs enfants et à leur conjoint(e), comme ces mères ultraorganisées qui gèrent les agendas de miniministres de leur progéniture, font de nombreux allers-retours pour les activités des uns et des autres, tout en assurant la bonne tenue de la maison avec les tâches ménagères.

Synonyms

géniture

This word in other languages

offspring(English)Abkömmling(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • porgéniture
  • pprogéniture
  • prgoéniture
  • progeniture
  • proggéniture
  • prognéiture
  • progéinture
  • progénitrue
  • progénitture
  • progénituer
  • progéniturre
  • progéniutre
  • progénniture
  • progéntiure
  • proégniture
  • prrogéniture
  • rpogéniture

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of progéniture - 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.

porgéniture2pprogéniture1prgoéniture2progeniture1proggéniture1prognéiture2progéinture2progénitrue2
Edit distance from "progéniture"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "progéniture"?
"progéniture" is spelled P-R-O-G-É-N-I-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.ʒe.ni.tyʁ\.
What does "progéniture" mean?
As a noun, "progéniture" means: ou Ce qu’un homme, une femme, ce qu’un animal a engendré.
What are common misspellings of "progéniture"?
Common misspellings include "porgéniture", "pprogéniture", "prgoéniture", "progeniture", "proggéniture". The correct spelling is "progéniture".
How do you pronounce "progéniture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "progéniture" is \pʁɔ.ʒe.ni.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "progéniture" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "progéniture", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

prétendants#19,954reconstruit#19,961reviendrons#19,968subsistance#19,997

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

traducteurs17 variantsvomissements17 variantsirréversible17 variantsbienfaisance17 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list