propres
\pʁɔpʁ\
The verdict
“propres” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,206. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,206
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de l’adjectif propre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-propres · propres · French
propres · rank #1,206 · 11 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,206
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pauvre
Nearest frequency peer: pauvre (-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 « propres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- John
John
98,798 corpus weight
- oublier
oublier
98,797 corpus weight
- pauvre
pauvre
98,796 corpus weight
- propres
propres
98,795 corpus weight
- regard
regard
98,794 corpus weight
- représente
représente
98,793 corpus weight
What this shows « propres » 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 | propres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔpʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « propres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around propres (IPA \pʁɔpʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,206 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de l’adjectif propre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for propres, with forms such as "porpres", "ppropres", and "propers". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "proprio", "prouvés", "propreté", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is propres, spelled P-R-O-P-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de l’adjectif propre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how propres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On nomme baromètres des instruments propres à mesurer la pression atmosphérique.
En conférant ainsi aux droits positifs, aux droits du citoyen, un tel privilège sur les droits de l’homme, elle pourrait nous faire oublier que ses propres droits de citoyenne allemande ne l’ont pourtant pas protégée et que tout État peut "décitoyenniser" - dénaturaliser - certains de ses membres comme le fit l’Allemagne nazie, et d’autres pays dans une m…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porpres
- ppropres
- propers
- proppres
- propress
- proprres
- proprse
- prorpes
- prpores
- prropres
- rpopres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of propres - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).