prologue
\pʁɔ.lɔɡ\
The verdict
“prologue” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,566. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,566
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discours préliminaire, avant-propos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prologue · prologue · French
prologue · rank #18,566 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,566
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pronostics
Nearest frequency peer: pronostics (+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 « prologue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pourriture
pourriture
81,438 corpus weight
- prirent
prirent
81,437 corpus weight
- prologue
prologue
81,435 corpus weight
- pronostics
pronostics
81,434 corpus weight
- prospectus
prospectus
81,433 corpus weight
- préhistoire
préhistoire
81,432 corpus weight
What this shows « prologue » 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 | prologue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.lɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prologue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around prologue (IPA \pʁɔ.lɔɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,566 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for prologue, with forms such as "porlogue", "pprologue", and "prloogue". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "provoqué", "prolonge", "prolongée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 prologue, spelled P-R-O-L-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Discours préliminaire, avant-propos.
- 2Morceau qui sert de prélude à une pièce dramatique.
- 3Course contre-la-montre au début d’une course à étapes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prologue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce prologue le fatiguait, mais il ne pouvait l’écourter. L’éloquence fait partie de la fonction ; et il en avait trop complaisamment composé les périodes pour se priver de la satisfaction de s’entendre les phraser et de jouir de ces cadences étudiées.
D’admirables prologues précèdent la plupart des tragédies grecques.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porlogue
- pprologue
- prloogue
- prolgoue
- prollogue
- prologeu
- prologgue
- prolouge
- proolgue
- prrologue
- rpologue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prologue - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).