proteger
\pro.te.ˈʒɛr\
The verdict
“proteger” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,990. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,990
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Protéger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proteger · proteger · French
proteger · rank #38,990 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,990
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH précisés
Nearest frequency peer: précisés (+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 « proteger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- POW
POW
61,015 corpus weight
- proteger
proteger
61,011 corpus weight
- précisés
précisés
61,010 corpus weight
- préconisée
préconisée
61,009 corpus weight
- prémisse
prémisse
61,008 corpus weight
- prérequis
prérequis
61,007 corpus weight
What this shows « proteger » 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 | proteger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pro.te.ˈʒɛr\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « proteger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around proteger (IPA \pro.te.ˈʒɛr\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,990 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Protéger.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for proteger, with forms such as "porteger", "pproteger", and "proetger". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "protégés", "protégez", "protester", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is proteger, spelled P-R-O-T-E-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Protéger.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porteger
- pproteger
- proetger
- proteegr
- protegerr
- protegger
- protegre
- protgeer
- protteger
- prroteger
- prtoeger
- rpoteger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of proteger - 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 "proteger", 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).