proposition
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,887
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
proposition is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de proposer, de soumettre à un examen, à une délibération. Pronounced \pʁɔ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,887 in French word frequency. Often confused with propositions and proportion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proposition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for proposition is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.pɔ.zi.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,887 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for proposition, with forms such as "porposition", "pproposition", and "proopsition". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "propositions", "proportion", "préposition", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is proposition, spelled P-R-O-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de proposer, de soumettre à un examen, à une délibération.
- 2Proposition de loi.
- 3Chose qui a été proposée.
- 4Chose proposée pour arriver à la conclusion d’une affaire ou à un arrangement.
- 5Expression d’une idée, affirmation ou la négation de quelque chose.
- 6Membre de phrase composé essentiellement d’un sujet et d’un verbe et accessoirement d’un complément ou d’un attribut.
- 7Énoncé doué d’une valeur de vérité, généralement le vrai ou le faux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porposition,pproposition,proopsition,propoistion,proposiiton,propositino,propositionn,propositoin,proposittion,propossition,propostiion,propposition,propsoition,prpoosition,prroposition,rpoposition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for proposition
Misspelling Variants of "proposition"
Frequency rank: #1,887 in French
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Nearby French words
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