prolongement
\pʁɔ.lɔ̃ʒ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“prolongement” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,895
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extension ou continuation de quelque portion d’étendue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prolongement · prolongement · French
prolongement · rank #9,895 · 19 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,895
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH posées
Nearest frequency peer: posées (-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 « prolongement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- policières
policières
90,109 corpus weight
- portera
portera
90,108 corpus weight
- posées
posées
90,107 corpus weight
- prolongement
prolongement
90,106 corpus weight
- prononcée
prononcée
90,104 corpus weight
- prostituées
prostituées
90,103 corpus weight
What this shows « prolongement » 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 | prolongement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.lɔ̃ʒ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #9,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prolongement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around prolongement (IPA \pʁɔ.lɔ̃ʒ.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,895 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for prolongement, with forms such as "porlongement", "pprolongement", and "prloongement". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "prolongent", "prolongements", "prolongeant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prolongement, spelled P-R-O-L-O-N-G-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Extension ou continuation de quelque portion d’étendue.
- 2Continuation dans le temps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prolongement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant 1987, la route pavée en provenance de Stephenville s'arrêtait à Lourdes, tandis que ses prolongements vers La Grand’Terre au sud et L’Anse-à-Canards au nord n'étaient que des chemins de terre, parfois goudronnés, toujours pleins d'ornières.
Mais cette capture économique n'a pas de prolongement politique fonctionnel. Au contraire, la société urbaine, telle que nous l'avons décrite, échappe à l'emprise politique de l'État.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porlongement
- pprolongement
- prloongement
- prollongement
- prolnogement
- prolognement
- prolonegment
- prolongeemnt
- prolongemennt
- prolongementt
- prolongemetn
- prolongemment
- prolongemnet
- prolonggement
- prolongmeent
- prolonngement
- proolngement
- prrolongement
- rpolongement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prolongement - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).