protégée
\pʁɔ.te.ʒe\
The verdict
“protégée” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,612
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme protégée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-protegee · protégée · French
protégée · rank #7,612 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,612
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proposées
Nearest frequency peer: proposées (-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 « protégée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perçu
perçu
92,392 corpus weight
- philosophiq…
philosophique
92,391 corpus weight
- proposées
proposées
92,390 corpus weight
- protégée
protégée
92,389 corpus weight
- préférable
préférable
92,388 corpus weight
- puce
puce
92,387 corpus weight
What this shows « protégée » 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 | protégée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.te.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « protégée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around protégée (IPA \pʁɔ.te.ʒe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,612 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme protégée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for protégée, with forms such as "portégée", "pprotégée", and "protegee". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "protégés", "protéine", "protégez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 protégée, spelled P-R-O-T-É-G-É-E.
Definition
- 1Femme protégée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how protégée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donc, la châtelaine mignarde ma protégée, la baisotte, la glitouille, s’incline pour une caresse du médius en accent circonflexe sur le délicat bigornuche rose, lui glousse des embryons de mots, des soupirs pâmants, des inarticuleries qui flanquent le bâton de Guignol dans le bénoche de l’ami Sana.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- portégée
- pprotégée
- protegee
- protgéée
- prottégée
- protégeé
- protéggée
- protéége
- proétgée
- prrotégée
- prtoégée
- rpotégée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of protégée - 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 "protégée", 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).