prostate
\pʁɔs.tat\
The verdict
“prostate” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,237. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,237
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une glande de l’appareil génital masculin qui sécrète une partie du liquide séminal et qui, chez l’homme, est située sur la ligne médiane et à la partie inférieure du col vésical.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prostate · prostate · French
prostate · rank #17,237 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,237
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH promettant
Nearest frequency peer: promettant (-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 « prostate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pourparlers
pourparlers
82,767 corpus weight
- pratiquants
pratiquants
82,766 corpus weight
- promettant
promettant
82,765 corpus weight
- prostate
prostate
82,764 corpus weight
- protégeant
protégeant
82,763 corpus weight
- prérogatives
prérogatives
82,762 corpus weight
What this shows « prostate » 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 | prostate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔs.tat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prostate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around prostate (IPA \pʁɔs.tat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,237 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Une glande de l’appareil génital masculin qui sécrète une partie du liquide séminal et qui, chez l’homme, est située sur la ligne médiane et à la partie inférieure du col vésical.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for prostate, with forms such as "porstate", "pprostate", and "prosatte". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "postale", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is prostate, spelled P-R-O-S-T-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Une glande de l’appareil génital masculin qui sécrète une partie du liquide séminal et qui, chez l’homme, est située sur la ligne médiane et à la partie inférieure du col vésical.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prostate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon grand-père disait : « N’ont de problème de prostate que les chastes et les assis. » Je ne sais pas grand-chose de sa chasteté, mais son métier de pharmacien l’obligeait à travailler debout toute la journée, et le fait est qu’il est mort à quatre-vingt-treize ans sans avoir été opéré de la prostate.
Selon l’Inserm, les personnes qui ont tendance à manger relativement tard et proche du moment du coucher augmentent sur le long terme le risque de cancer du sein ou de la prostate.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porstate
- pprostate
- prosatte
- prosstate
- prostaet
- prostatte
- prosttae
- prosttate
- protsate
- prrostate
- prsotate
- rpostate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prostate - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prostate", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).