progrès
\pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ\
The verdict
“progrès” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,442. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,442
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mouvement en avant de la civilisation, en général ou dans un de ses domaines particuliers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-progres · progrès · French
progrès · rank #2,442 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,442
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH princesse
Nearest frequency peer: princesse (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “progrès”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- passée
passée
97,562 corpus weight
- personnalité
personnalité
97,561 corpus weight
- princesse
princesse
97,560 corpus weight
- progrès
progrès
97,559 corpus weight
- prouver
prouver
97,558 corpus weight
- puissant
puissant
97,557 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “progrès” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | progrès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “progrès” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around progrès (IPA \pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,442 among 248,534 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for progrès, with forms such as "porgrès", "pprogrès", and "prgorès". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "propre", "proies", "propres", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 progrès, spelled P-R-O-G-R-È-S.
Definition
- 1Mouvement en avant de la civilisation, en général ou dans un de ses domaines particuliers.
- 2Avancement, mouvement en avant.
- 3Toute sorte d’avancement, d’augmentation en bien ou en mal.
- 4Suite d’avantages remportés à la guerre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porgrès
- pprogrès
- prgorès
- proggrès
- progres
- progrrès
- progrsè
- progrèss
- progèrs
- prorgès
- prrogrès
- rpogrès
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of progrès - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "progrès", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.