promulguer

\pʁɔ.myl.ɡe\

/\pʁɔ.myl.ɡe\/ verb

The verdict

“promulguer” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,872. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,872
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Publier une loi dans les formes requises, pour la rendre exécutoire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-promulguer · promulguer · French

promulguer · rank #49,872 · 15 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,872
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH programmateur

Nearest frequency peer: programmateur (-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 « promulguer »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « promulguer » 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).

promulguer vs promulgué
80% similar
promulguer vs promulguée
80% similar

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

Key facts for promulguer
PropertyValue
Headwordpromulguer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɔ.myl.ɡe\
Letters10
Frequency rank#49,872
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « promulguer »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).promulguerse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « programmateur » (#49,871), « pronostique » (#49,873), « professorat » (#49,870). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « promulguer » est au #49,872. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around promulguer (IPA \pʁɔ.myl.ɡe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,872 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for promulguer, with forms such as "pormulguer", "ppromulguer", and "prmoulguer". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "promulgué", "promulguée", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is promulguer, spelled P-R-O-M-U-L-G-U-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Publier une loi dans les formes requises, pour la rendre exécutoire.
  2. 2
    Affirmer, professer, faire savoir publiquement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’Assemblée nationale et le Sénat ont adopté, Le Président de la République promulgue la loi dont la teneur suit : […]
  2. Dans l’attente de voir chaque jour promulguer cette mesure, toutes les affaires avaient été suspendues […]

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pormulguer
  • ppromulguer
  • prmoulguer
  • promluguer
  • prommulguer
  • promugluer
  • promulgeur
  • promulgguer
  • promulguerr
  • promulgure
  • promullguer
  • promuluger
  • proumlguer
  • prromulguer
  • rpomulguer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of promulguer - 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.

pormulguer2ppromulguer1prmoulguer2promluguer2prommulguer1promugluer2promulgeur2promulgguer1
Edit distance from "promulguer"

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 "promulguer"?
"promulguer" is spelled P-R-O-M-U-L-G-U-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.myl.ɡe\.
What does "promulguer" mean?
As a verb, "promulguer" means: Publier une loi dans les formes requises, pour la rendre exécutoire.
What words are commonly confused with "promulguer"?
"promulguer" is commonly confused with "promulgué", "promulguée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "promulguer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "promulguer" is \pʁɔ.myl.ɡe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "promulguer" come from?
"promulguer" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "promulguer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list