progressant

\pʁɔ.ɡʁe.sɑ̃\

/\pʁɔ.ɡʁe.sɑ̃\/ verb

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The verdict

“progressant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,968. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,968
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de progresser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-progressant · progressant · French

progressant · rank #46,968 · 16 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #46,968
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH primordiaux

Nearest frequency peer: primordiaux (-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 « progressant »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « progressant » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

progressant vs progressent
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for progressant
PropertyValue
Headwordprogressant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɔ.ɡʁe.sɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#46,968
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « progressant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.progressantse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « primordiaux » (#46,967), « prouvés » (#46,969), « prudentes » (#46,970). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « progressant » est au #46,968. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around progressant (IPA \pʁɔ.ɡʁe.sɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #46,968 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de progresser.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for progressant, with forms such as "porgressant", "pprogressant", and "prgoressant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "progressent", 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 progressant, spelled P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe présent de progresser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Il a vu ses marques d’entretien ménager progresser de 19 % en 2020, l’un de ses produits antibactériens progressant même de 22,5 %.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • porgressant
  • pprogressant
  • prgoressant
  • progerssant
  • proggressant
  • progresant
  • progresasnt
  • progressannt
  • progressantt
  • progressatn
  • progressnat
  • progrressant
  • progrsesant
  • prorgessant
  • prrogressant
  • rpogressant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of progressant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

porgressant2pprogressant1prgoressant2progerssant2proggressant1progresant1progresasnt2progressannt1
Edit distance from "progressant"

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 "progressant"?
"progressant" is spelled P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.ɡʁe.sɑ̃\.
What does "progressant" mean?
As a verb, "progressant" means: Participe présent de progresser.
What words are commonly confused with "progressant"?
"progressant" is commonly confused with "progressent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "progressant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "progressant" is \pʁɔ.ɡʁe.sɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "progressant" come from?
"progressant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

primordiaux#46,967polyvalents#46,961quadrillage#46,977reconvertie#46,984

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

redeviendra16 variantsnéoclassique16 variantsrésonances16 variantsnaturalisés16 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list