prolonge
\pʁɔ.lɔ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“prolonge” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,108. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,108
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cordage qui servait, dans le tir, à réunir la pièce d’artillerie à son avant-train.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prolonge · prolonge · French
prolonge · rank #11,108 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,108
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH privilégiés
Nearest frequency peer: privilégiés (-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 « prolonge »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Prague
Prague
88,896 corpus weight
- prairies
prairies
88,895 corpus weight
- privilégiés
privilégiés
88,894 corpus weight
- prolonge
prolonge
88,893 corpus weight
- promu
promu
88,892 corpus weight
- protester
protester
88,891 corpus weight
What this shows « prolonge » 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 | prolonge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.lɔ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prolonge »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around prolonge (IPA \pʁɔ.lɔ̃ʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,108 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for prolonge, with forms such as "porlonge", "pprolonge", and "prloonge". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "prononcé", "prolonger", "prolongée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 prolonge, spelled P-R-O-L-O-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Cordage qui servait, dans le tir, à réunir la pièce d’artillerie à son avant-train.
- 2Chariot à munitions.
- 3Cordage servant à fixer des marchandises ou à fixer des bâches sur les wagons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prolonge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tir à la prolonge.
Mais, rue du Four et rue des Laboureurs, elle ne put passer : des canons s’y trouvaient, une file sans fin de pièces, de caissons, de prolonges, qu’on avait dû parquer dès la veille dans ce recoin, et qui semblait y avoir été oubliée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porlonge
- pprolonge
- prloonge
- prollonge
- prolnoge
- prologne
- proloneg
- prolongge
- prolonnge
- proolnge
- prrolonge
- rpolonge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prolonge - 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
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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 (12 here; floor ≥5).