prospection
\pʁɔs.pɛk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“prospection” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,124. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,124
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de prospecter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prospection · prospection · French
prospection · rank #21,124 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,124
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proportionnel…
Nearest frequency peer: proportionnellement (-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 « prospection »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- proies
proies
78,880 corpus weight
- projectile
projectile
78,879 corpus weight
- proportionn…
proportionnellement
78,878 corpus weight
- prospection
prospection
78,877 corpus weight
- présences
présences
78,875 corpus weight
- préservatifs
préservatifs
78,874 corpus weight
What this shows « prospection » 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 | prospection |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔs.pɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #21,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prospection »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around prospection (IPA \pʁɔs.pɛk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,124 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for prospection, with forms such as "porspection", "pprospection", and "propsection". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "protection", "prospective", "projection", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prospection, spelled P-R-O-S-P-E-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de prospecter.
- 2Action de rechercher une nouvelle clientèle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prospection appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme toutes les autres matières utiles de même origine, sa prospection doit être basée sur des idées géologiques, et sédimentologiques en particulier.
Aucune découverte préhistorique n'a été signalée à Sauvagny, sans doute par absence de prospection de ce terroir, de la vallée de l’Œil et de ses affluents, aux terrains légers qui, pourtant, conviennent à l’implantation d’habitats.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porspection
- pprospection
- propsection
- prosepction
- prospcetion
- prospecction
- prospeciton
- prospectino
- prospectionn
- prospectoin
- prospecttion
- prospetcion
- prosppection
- prosspection
- prrospection
- prsopection
- rpospection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prospection - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).