projectile
\pʁɔ.ʒɛk.til\
The verdict
“projectile” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,122. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,122
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tout corps lancé par une force quelconque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-projectile · projectile · French
projectile · rank #21,122 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,122
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proies
Nearest frequency peer: proies (-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 « projectile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poursuivra
poursuivra
78,882 corpus weight
- probables
probables
78,881 corpus weight
- proies
proies
78,880 corpus weight
- projectile
projectile
78,879 corpus weight
- proportionn…
proportionnellement
78,878 corpus weight
- prospection
prospection
78,877 corpus weight
What this shows « projectile » 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 | projectile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ʒɛk.til\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « projectile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around projectile (IPA \pʁɔ.ʒɛk.til\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,122 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for projectile, with forms such as "porjectile", "pprojectile", and "prjoectile". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "projection", "projectiles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 projectile, spelled P-R-O-J-E-C-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Tout corps lancé par une force quelconque.
- 2Balle, obus, et en général de tout corps lancé par une arme de jet ou une arme à feu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how projectile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a brûlé ce qui tombait sous la main et les livres ont servi de combustibles comme ils avaient servi de projectiles. La première chose qui avait été lancée sur les CRS, c'est une bible !
D’énormes fumigènes rouges et une bombe agricole illuminèrent le virage de Boulogne, et différents projectiles fusèrent en direction du terrain sous les cris de : « CRS marseillais ! » Des agents de sécurité couraient dans tous les sens, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porjectile
- pprojectile
- prjoectile
- proejctile
- projcetile
- projecctile
- projecitle
- projectiel
- projectille
- projectlie
- projecttile
- projetcile
- projjectile
- prrojectile
- rpojectile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of projectile - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).