programmer
\pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\
The verdict
“programmer” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,707. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,707
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre dans un programme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-programmer · programmer · French
programmer · rank #16,707 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,707
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH probabilités
Nearest frequency peer: probabilités (-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 « programmer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poussières
poussières
83,297 corpus weight
- poussées
poussées
83,296 corpus weight
- probabilités
probabilités
83,295 corpus weight
- programmer
programmer
83,294 corpus weight
- prophètes
prophètes
83,293 corpus weight
- proprio
proprio
83,292 corpus weight
What this shows « programmer » 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 | programmer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « programmer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around programmer (IPA \pʁɔ.ɡʁa.me\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,707 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for programmer, with forms such as "porgrammer", "pprogrammer", and "prgorammer". 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. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "programmés", "programmeur", "programmeurs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is programmer, spelled P-R-O-G-R-A-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre dans un programme.
- 2Écrire, développer un programme informatique.
- 3Planifier, prévoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how programmer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Programmer un quatuor au sein d’un festival.
Tu sais programmer en cobol ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porgrammer
- pprogrammer
- prgorammer
- progarmmer
- proggrammer
- programemr
- programer
- programmerr
- programmre
- progrmamer
- progrrammer
- prorgammer
- prrogrammer
- rpogrammer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of programmer - 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 "programmer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).