progression
\pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“progression” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,521. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,521
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marche en avant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-progression · progression · French
progression · rank #4,521 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,521
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proportion
Nearest frequency peer: proportion (+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 « progression »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plafond
plafond
95,484 corpus weight
- pomme
pomme
95,483 corpus weight
- progression
progression
95,480 corpus weight
- proportion
proportion
95,479 corpus weight
- présentant
présentant
95,478 corpus weight
- recommande
recommande
95,477 corpus weight
What this shows « progression » 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 | progression |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « progression »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around progression (IPA \pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,521 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for progression, with forms such as "porgression", "pprogression", and "prgoression". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "progressive", "progressions", "profession", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is progression, spelled P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Marche en avant.
- 2Développement ; accroissement ininterrompu.
- 3Avancement, développement par degrés.
- 4Suite de nombres ou de quantités qui dérivent successivement les unes des autres, d’après une même loi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how progression appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La 2ᵉ Panzer ne manqua pas de profiter de cet avantage quand elle se fut emparé de Pont-à-Bar, le 14 mai à 12 h 30. Dans l'après-midi, elle entama une progression en rive gauche.
Ses voiles délavées par le soleil et la pluie mais qui paraissaient blanches sur le gris du ciel, essayaient de récupérer les rares frissons de brise pour améliorer la lente progression du bateau.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porgression
- pprogression
- prgoression
- progerssion
- proggression
- progresion
- progresison
- progressino
- progressionn
- progressoin
- progrression
- progrsesion
- prorgession
- prrogression
- rpogression
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of progression - 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.
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 "progression", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).