prolonge

\pʁɔ.lɔ̃ʒ\

/\pʁɔ.lɔ̃ʒ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « prolonge » 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).

prolonge vs prononcé
63% similar
prolonge vs prolonger
89% similar
prolonge vs prolongée
89% similar

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

Key facts for prolonge
PropertyValue
Headwordprolonge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɔ.lɔ̃ʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#11,108
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prolonge »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.prolongese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « privilégiés » (#11,107), « promu » (#11,109), « prairies » (#11,106). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prolonge » est au #11,108. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Cordage qui servait, dans le tir, à réunir la pièce d’artillerie à son avant-train.
  2. 2
    Chariot à munitions.
  3. 3
    Cordage servant à fixer des marchandises ou à fixer des bâches sur les wagons.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how prolonge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Tir à la prolonge.
  2. 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.

porlonge2pprolonge1prloonge2prollonge1prolnoge2prologne2proloneg2prolongge1
Edit distance from "prolonge"

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 "prolonge"?
"prolonge" is spelled P-R-O-L-O-N-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.lɔ̃ʒ\.
What does "prolonge" mean?
As a noun, "prolonge" means: Cordage qui servait, dans le tir, à réunir la pièce d’artillerie à son avant-train.
What words are commonly confused with "prolonge"?
"prolonge" is commonly confused with "prononcé", "prolonger", "prolongée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prolonge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prolonge" is \pʁɔ.lɔ̃ʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prolonge" come from?
"prolonge" 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 "prolonge", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list