protégeant
\pʁɔ.te.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“protégeant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,238. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,238
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participe présent de protéger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-protegeant · protégeant · French
protégeant · rank #17,238 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,238
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH prostate
Nearest frequency peer: prostate (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “protégeant”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- 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
- pérennité
pérennité
82,761 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “protégeant” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | protégeant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.te.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “protégeant” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around protégeant (IPA \pʁɔ.te.ʒɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,238 among 248,534 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de protéger.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for protégeant, with forms such as "portégeant", "pprotégeant", and "protegeant". 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, "protègent", "protestant", "protégeons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is protégeant, spelled P-R-O-T-É-G-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de protéger.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- portégeant
- pprotégeant
- protegeant
- protgéeant
- prottégeant
- protéegant
- protégaent
- protégeannt
- protégeantt
- protégeatn
- protégenat
- protéggeant
- proétgeant
- prrotégeant
- prtoégeant
- rpotégeant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of protégeant - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "protégeant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.