prononça
\pʁɔ.nɔ̃.sa\
The verdict
“prononça” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,110
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de prononcer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prononca · prononça · French
prononça · rank #36,110 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,110
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH produirait
Nearest frequency peer: produirait (-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 « prononça »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prendras
prendras
63,894 corpus weight
- prodigieuse
prodigieuse
63,893 corpus weight
- produirait
produirait
63,892 corpus weight
- prononça
prononça
63,891 corpus weight
- proportionn…
proportionnée
63,890 corpus weight
- Proudhon
Proudhon
63,888 corpus weight
What this shows « prononça » 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 | prononça |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.nɔ̃.sa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prononça »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around prononça (IPA \pʁɔ.nɔ̃.sa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,110 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de prononcer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for prononça, with forms such as "pornonça", "pprononça", and "prnoonça". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "prononcé", "prononcer", "prononcée", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prononça, spelled P-R-O-N-O-N-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de prononcer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prononça appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut lire, relire, re-relire, et presque apprendre par cœur le discours que prononça André Malraux, dans le vent glacé de cet hiver 1964, sous les yeux d’un De Gaulle plus marmoréen que de coutume.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pornonça
- pprononça
- prnoonça
- pronnonça
- pronnoça
- prononaç
- prononca
- prononnça
- pronoçna
- proonnça
- prrononça
- rpononça
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prononça - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prononça", 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).