propager
\pʁɔ.pa.ʒe\
The verdict
“propager” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,333. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,333
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Multiplier par voie de génération ou de reproduction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-propager · propager · French
propager · rank #14,333 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,333
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH profondeurs
Nearest frequency peer: profondeurs (-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 « propager »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- primo
primo
85,671 corpus weight
- proclamé
proclamé
85,670 corpus weight
- profondeurs
profondeurs
85,669 corpus weight
- propager
propager
85,668 corpus weight
- proverbe
proverbe
85,667 corpus weight
- provinciales
provinciales
85,666 corpus weight
What this shows « propager » 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 | propager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.pa.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « propager »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around propager (IPA \pʁɔ.pa.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,333 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for propager, with forms such as "porpager", "ppropager", and "proapger". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "propane", "proposer", "proteger", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is propager, spelled P-R-O-P-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Multiplier par voie de génération ou de reproduction.
- 2Répandre, étendre, augmenter, faire croître.
- 3Répandre, étendre, en parlant de la lumière, du son, de certaines ondes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how propager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La porte est ouverte à la « bête du Colorado » qui se propage rapidement en France, progressant en moyenne de 50 kilomètres par an, et ce, malgré des campagnes de ramassage systématique des insectes par les élèves des écoles communales.
En même temps, les idées socialistes se propageaient grâce à Louis Blanc et à Proudhon, et il allait falloir tenir compte des revendications de ces différentes écoles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porpager
- ppropager
- proapger
- propaegr
- propagerr
- propagger
- propagre
- propgaer
- proppager
- prpoager
- prropager
- rpopager
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of propager - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).