propulsion
\pʁɔ.pyl.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“propulsion” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,531. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,531
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouvement qui porte vers un point, action de propulser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-propulsion · propulsion · French
propulsion · rank #17,531 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,531
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH projectiles
Nearest frequency peer: projectiles (-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 « propulsion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- primordiale
primordiale
82,473 corpus weight
- profile
profile
82,472 corpus weight
- projectiles
projectiles
82,471 corpus weight
- propulsion
propulsion
82,470 corpus weight
- péripéties
péripéties
82,468 corpus weight
- quest
quest
82,467 corpus weight
What this shows « propulsion » 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 | propulsion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.pyl.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « propulsion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around propulsion (IPA \pʁɔ.pyl.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,531 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mouvement qui porte vers un point, action de propulser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for propulsion, with forms such as "porpulsion", "ppropulsion", and "proplusion". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "profusion", "propension", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is propulsion, spelled P-R-O-P-U-L-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Mouvement qui porte vers un point, action de propulser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how propulsion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La propulsion, dit-elle en me rendant le mètre, c’est la combinaison de mon élan et de la pression des porteurs sur la barre. Plus ils poussent, plus je vais haut.
Le développement des missiles a été plus difficile et plus long que prévu, notamment pour parvenir à maîtriser les structures, les nouveaux matériaux composites, les systèmes de navigation et la propulsion solide.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porpulsion
- ppropulsion
- proplusion
- proppulsion
- propulison
- propullsion
- propulsino
- propulsionn
- propulsoin
- propulssion
- propuslion
- prouplsion
- prpoulsion
- prropulsion
- rpopulsion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of propulsion - 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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