prospérer
\pʁɔs.pe.ʁe\
The verdict
“prospérer” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,735. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,735
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être heureux, avoir la fortune favorable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prosperer · prospérer · French
prospérer · rank #21,735 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,735
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH propension
Nearest frequency peer: propension (-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 « prospérer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- promeut
promeut
78,269 corpus weight
- pronom
pronom
78,268 corpus weight
- propension
propension
78,267 corpus weight
- prospérer
prospérer
78,266 corpus weight
- préalables
préalables
78,265 corpus weight
- précoces
précoces
78,264 corpus weight
What this shows « prospérer » 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 | prospérer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔs.pe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prospérer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around prospérer (IPA \pʁɔs.pe.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,735 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for prospérer, with forms such as "porspérer", "pprospérer", and "propsérer". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "prospères", "prosper", "prospère", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is prospérer, spelled P-R-O-S-P-É-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être heureux, avoir la fortune favorable.
- 2Réussir, avoir un heureux succès.
- 3Se développer, croître.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prospérer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dieu permet quelquefois que les méchants prospèrent.
Vingt mille habitants vivent et prospèrent dans cet archipel sinistre, mais attirant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porspérer
- pprospérer
- propsérer
- prosperer
- prosppérer
- prospréer
- prospéerr
- prospérerr
- prospérre
- prospérrer
- prosspérer
- proséprer
- prrospérer
- prsopérer
- rpospérer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prospérer - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).