prolonger
\pʁɔ.lɔ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“prolonger” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,016. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,016
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire durer plus longtemps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prolonger · prolonger · French
prolonger · rank #8,016 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,016
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH potter
Nearest frequency peer: potter (-2 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 « prolonger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- politiqueme…
politiquement
91,988 corpus weight
- potter
potter
91,987 corpus weight
- prolonger
prolonger
91,985 corpus weight
- péninsule
péninsule
91,983 corpus weight
- pénétrer
pénétrer
91,982 corpus weight
- rappelant
rappelant
91,981 corpus weight
What this shows « prolonger » 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 | prolonger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.lɔ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prolonger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around prolonger (IPA \pʁɔ.lɔ̃.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,016 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for prolonger, with forms such as "porlonger", "pprolonger", and "prloonger". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "prononcer", "prolongés", "prolongera", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is prolonger, spelled P-R-O-L-O-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire durer plus longtemps.
- 2Remettre à un temps plus éloigné ; différer.
- 3Étendre, rendre plus long en étendue.
- 4Longer, en se portant parallèlement et fort près.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prolonger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prolonger le terme d’un paiement.
Le son se prolonge dans les profondeurs de cette caverne.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porlonger
- pprolonger
- prloonger
- prollonger
- prolnoger
- prologner
- prolonegr
- prolongerr
- prolongger
- prolongre
- prolonnger
- proolnger
- prrolonger
- rpolonger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prolonger - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).