propane
\pʁɔ.pan\
The verdict
“propane” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,268. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,268
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hydrocarbure saturé de la famille des paraffines, de formule chimique C₃H₈. C’est un gaz plus lourd que l’air, facilement liquéfiable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-propane · propane · French
propane · rank #34,268 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,268
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH projetées
Nearest frequency peer: projetées (-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 « propane »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- primeur
primeur
65,737 corpus weight
- probant
probant
65,736 corpus weight
- progress
progress
65,735 corpus weight
- projetées
projetées
65,734 corpus weight
- propane
propane
65,733 corpus weight
- préoccupante
préoccupante
65,732 corpus weight
What this shows « propane » 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 | propane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.pan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « propane »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around propane (IPA \pʁɔ.pan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,268 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hydrocarbure saturé de la famille des paraffines, de formule chimique C₃H₈. C’est un gaz plus lourd que l’air, facilement liquéfiable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for propane, with forms such as "porpane", "ppropane", and "proapne". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "propre", "proposé", "propice", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is propane, spelled P-R-O-P-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Hydrocarbure saturé de la famille des paraffines, de formule chimique C₃H₈. C’est un gaz plus lourd que l’air, facilement liquéfiable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how propane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le procédé unique de valorisation énergétique utilisé par RSI Environnement lui permet de procéder aux traitements des sols tout en diminuant sa consommation de propane.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porpane
- ppropane
- proapne
- propaen
- propanne
- propnae
- proppane
- prpoane
- prropane
- rpopane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of propane - 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.
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 "propane", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).