prorogation
\pʁɔ.ʁɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“prorogation” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,373. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,373
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Délai, prolongation de temps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prorogation · prorogation · French
prorogation · rank #46,373 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,373
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prolongements
Nearest frequency peer: prolongements (-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 « prorogation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prism
prism
53,631 corpus weight
- progressivi…
progressivité
53,630 corpus weight
- prolongemen…
prolongements
53,629 corpus weight
- prorogation
prorogation
53,628 corpus weight
- protégeons
protégeons
53,627 corpus weight
- préconisées
préconisées
53,626 corpus weight
What this shows « prorogation » 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 | prorogation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ʁɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #46,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prorogation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around prorogation (IPA \pʁɔ.ʁɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,373 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for prorogation, with forms such as "porrogation", "pprorogation", and "proorgation". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "provocation", "propagation", "prolongation", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prorogation, spelled P-R-O-R-O-G-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Délai, prolongation de temps.
- 2Acte qui suspend les séances d’une assemblée et en remet la continuation à un certain jour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prorogation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On leur a accordé une nouvelle prorogation de tant de jours, de tant de mois.
Le texte du gouvernement prévoyait que sa prorogation au-delà d'un mois soit soumise au Parlement, mais le rapporteur a argué de la difficulté « de revenir devant le Parlement » dans ce délai, au regard du contexte.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porrogation
- pprorogation
- proorgation
- prorgoation
- proroagtion
- prorogaiton
- prorogatino
- prorogationn
- prorogatoin
- prorogattion
- proroggation
- prorogtaion
- prorrogation
- prroogation
- prrorogation
- rporogation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prorogation - 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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