propos
\pʁɔ.po\
The verdict
“propos” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #561. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #561
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paroles échangées dans la conversation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-propos · propos · French
propos · rank #561 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #561
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH programme
Nearest frequency peer: programme (-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 « propos »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- of
of
99,443 corpus weight
- produit
produit
99,442 corpus weight
- programme
programme
99,441 corpus weight
- propos
propos
99,440 corpus weight
- route
route
99,439 corpus weight
- états
états
99,438 corpus weight
What this shows « propos » 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 | propos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.po\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « propos »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around propos (IPA \pʁɔ.po\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #561 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for propos, with forms such as "porpos", "ppropos", and "proops". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pros", "propre", "Proton", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is propos, spelled P-R-O-P-O-S.
Definition
- 1Paroles échangées dans la conversation.
- 2Élément du discours.
- 3Élément du discours.
- 4Paroles en l’air ; médisances.
- 5Résolution formée.
- 6Ce dont il s’agit, le sujet dont on parle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how propos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment s'assurer que tous les propos qu'elle avait tenus n'étaient pas des propos en l'air ?
C’étaient des commerçants du quartier […]. Il suffisait de les voir, d’écouter leurs propos inoffensifs, émaillés de vérités premières.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porpos
- ppropos
- proops
- proposs
- proppos
- propso
- prpoos
- prropos
- rpopos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of propos - 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 "propos", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).