propagation
\pʁɔ.pa.ɡa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“propagation” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,367. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,367
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de propager ; multiplication ; reproduction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-propagation · propagation · French
propagation · rank #9,367 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,367
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pourrons
Nearest frequency peer: pourrons (-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 « propagation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Pisse
Pisse
90,637 corpus weight
- plaines
plaines
90,636 corpus weight
- pourrons
pourrons
90,635 corpus weight
- propagation
propagation
90,634 corpus weight
- Prusse
Prusse
90,633 corpus weight
- préférez
préférez
90,632 corpus weight
What this shows « propagation » 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 | propagation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.pa.ɡa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « propagation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around propagation (IPA \pʁɔ.pa.ɡa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,367 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for propagation, with forms such as "porpagation", "ppropagation", and "proapgation". 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, "prorogation", "profanation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is propagation, spelled P-R-O-P-A-G-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de propager ; multiplication ; reproduction.
- 2Extension, diffusion, progrès, augmentation.
- 3Manière dont la lumière et le son se répandent, et dont certains mouvements naissent les uns des autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how propagation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La reproduction par semis, même sous cloche, est très-difficile et très-lente à notre climat; la propagation par marcottes, et surtout par éclats, est de beaucoup préférable.
Les bulbilles de certaines plantes sont des agents de dissémination très efficaces. Ainsi, le Portugal est véritablement infesté par la propagation envahissante d’Oxalis cernua, plante sud-africaine importée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porpagation
- ppropagation
- proapgation
- propaagtion
- propagaiton
- propagatino
- propagationn
- propagatoin
- propagattion
- propaggation
- propagtaion
- propgaation
- proppagation
- prpoagation
- prropagation
- rpopagation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of propagation - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).