prohibition
\pʁɔ.i.bi.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“prohibition” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,115. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,115
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de prohiber, défense, interdiction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prohibition · prohibition · French
prohibition · rank #19,115 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,115
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH procuration
Nearest frequency peer: procuration (-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 « prohibition »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pretty
pretty
80,889 corpus weight
- prisonnière
prisonnière
80,888 corpus weight
- procuration
procuration
80,887 corpus weight
- prohibition
prohibition
80,886 corpus weight
- provenir
provenir
80,885 corpus weight
- précédée
précédée
80,884 corpus weight
What this shows « prohibition » 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 | prohibition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.i.bi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #19,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prohibition »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around prohibition (IPA \pʁɔ.i.bi.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,115 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for prohibition, with forms such as "porhibition", "pprohibition", and "prhoibition". 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, "prohibitif", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is prohibition, spelled P-R-O-H-I-B-I-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de prohiber, défense, interdiction.
- 2Interdiction de la vente de boissons alcoolisées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prohibition appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourquoi êtes-vous forcés d’approuver la prohibition de l’exportation des grains à l’étranger toutes les fois que l’abondance n’est point assurée à l’intérieur.
Vous avez vu nos évêques, à très peu d’exceptions près, au mépris des prohibitions les plus certaines de notre législation concordataire, se concerter en vue de manifestations collectives, ou se livrer, tantôt isolément, tantôt simultanément, à des manifestations individuelles contre les actes les plus réguliers du gouvernement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porhibition
- pprohibition
- prhoibition
- prohbiition
- prohhibition
- prohibbition
- prohibiiton
- prohibitino
- prohibitionn
- prohibitoin
- prohibittion
- prohibtiion
- prohiibtion
- proihbition
- prrohibition
- rpohibition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prohibition - 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 "prohibition", 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).