pronom
\pʁɔ.nɔ̃\
The verdict
“pronom” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,733. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,733
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot-outil qui peut prendre la place d’un syntagme nominal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pronom · pronom · French
pronom · rank #21,733 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,733
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH promeut
Nearest frequency peer: promeut (-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 « pronom »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- postérieur
postérieur
78,271 corpus weight
- promeut
promeut
78,269 corpus weight
- pronom
pronom
78,268 corpus weight
- propension
propension
78,267 corpus weight
- prospérer
prospérer
78,266 corpus weight
- préalables
préalables
78,265 corpus weight
What this shows « pronom » 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 | pronom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pronom »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pronom (IPA \pʁɔ.nɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,733 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mot-outil qui peut prendre la place d’un syntagme nominal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pronom, with forms such as "pornom", "ppronom", and "prnoom". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "proof", "propos", "Proton", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pronom, spelled P-R-O-N-O-M.
Definition
- 1Mot-outil qui peut prendre la place d’un syntagme nominal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pronom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la phrase il est grand, il est un pronom personnel utilisé par exemple au lieu de l’homme.
Le français n’est d’ailleurs pas la seule langue qui a vécu des vagues de masculinisation : l’anglais a vécu quelque chose de semblable avec son pronom he [« il »] devenu soudain générique à la fin du XIXe siècle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pornom
- ppronom
- prnoom
- pronmo
- pronnom
- pronomm
- proonm
- prronom
- rponom
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pronom - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).