progressive
\pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.siv\
The verdict
“progressive” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,883. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,883
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de progressif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-progressive · progressive · French
progressive · rank #7,883 · 15 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,883
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poules
Nearest frequency peer: poules (-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 « progressive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- planètes
planètes
92,121 corpus weight
- portées
portées
92,120 corpus weight
- poules
poules
92,119 corpus weight
- progressive
progressive
92,118 corpus weight
- publicitaire
publicitaire
92,116 corpus weight
- pubs
pubs
92,115 corpus weight
What this shows « progressive » 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 | progressive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.siv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « progressive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around progressive (IPA \pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.siv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,883 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de progressif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for progressive, with forms such as "porgressive", "pprogressive", and "prgoressive". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "progressives", "progressivité", "progressé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is progressive, spelled P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de progressif.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porgressive
- pprogressive
- prgoressive
- progerssive
- proggressive
- progresisve
- progresive
- progressiev
- progressivve
- progressvie
- progrressive
- progrsesive
- prorgessive
- prrogressive
- rpogressive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of progressive - 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 "progressive", 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).