progressive

\pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.siv\

/\pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.siv\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows « progressive » 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).

progressive vs progressives
92% similar
progressive vs progressivité
77% similar
progressive vs progressé
73% similar

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

Key facts for progressive
PropertyValue
Headwordprogressive
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.siv\
Letters11
Frequency rank#7,883
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « progressive »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).progressivese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « poules » (#7,882), « portées » (#7,881), « publicitaire » (#7,885). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « progressive » est au #7,883. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Féminin 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.

porgressive2pprogressive1prgoressive2progerssive2proggressive1progresisve2progresive1progressiev2
Edit distance from "progressive"

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 "progressive"?
"progressive" is spelled P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.siv\.
What does "progressive" mean?
As an adjective, "progressive" means: Féminin singulier de progressif.
What words are commonly confused with "progressive"?
"progressive" is commonly confused with "progressives", "progressivité", "progressé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "progressive"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "progressive" is \pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ.siv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "progressive" come from?
"progressive" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list