prospect
\pʁɔs.pɛ\
The verdict
“prospect” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,250. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,250
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vue, perspective, paysage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prospect · prospect · French
prospect · rank #45,250 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,250
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proposerait
Nearest frequency peer: proposerait (-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 « prospect »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- promotionne…
promotionnelles
54,754 corpus weight
- proposais
proposais
54,753 corpus weight
- proposerait
proposerait
54,752 corpus weight
- prospect
prospect
54,751 corpus weight
- prospects
prospects
54,750 corpus weight
- protestatai…
protestataires
54,749 corpus weight
What this shows « prospect » 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 | prospect |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔs.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prospect »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around prospect (IPA \pʁɔs.pɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,250 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for prospect, with forms such as "porspect", "pprospect", and "propsect". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "prosper", "protect", "prospère", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is prospect, spelled P-R-O-S-P-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1Vue, perspective, paysage.
- 2Manière de regarder un objet.
- 3Espace minimal autorisé entre deux constructions pour favoriser l’éclairement intérieur par la lumière solaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prospect appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle [la salle de travail de Montaigne] a trois veues de riche et libre prospect.
Il y a deux manières de voyager : la première consiste à passer dans chaque ville trois ou quatre jours, une semaine ou davantage s’il le faut, pour visiter les églises, les édifices, les musées, les curiosités locales, étudier les mœurs, l’administration, les procédés de fabrique, etc., etc. ; la seconde se borne à prendre le prospect général des choses,…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porspect
- pprospect
- propsect
- prosepct
- prospcet
- prospecct
- prospectt
- prospetc
- prosppect
- prosspect
- prrospect
- prsopect
- rpospect
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prospect - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "prospect", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).