protégez
\pʁɔ.te.ʒe\
The verdict
“protégez” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,728. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,728
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de protéger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-protegez · protégez · French
protégez · rank #24,728 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,728
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH productives
Nearest frequency peer: productives (-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 « protégez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- PPP
PPP
75,276 corpus weight
- primauté
primauté
75,275 corpus weight
- productives
productives
75,274 corpus weight
- protégez
protégez
75,273 corpus weight
- proverbes
proverbes
75,272 corpus weight
- purgatoire
purgatoire
75,270 corpus weight
What this shows « protégez » 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 | protégez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.te.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « protégez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around protégez (IPA \pʁɔ.te.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,728 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for protégez, with forms such as "portégez", "pprotégez", and "protegez". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "protégé", "protégés", "protégée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is protégez, spelled P-R-O-T-É-G-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de protéger.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de protéger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how protégez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Protégez votre vie privée.
Protégez-vous de la mauvaise humeur ambiante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- portégez
- pprotégez
- protegez
- protgéez
- prottégez
- protéegz
- protégezz
- protéggez
- protégze
- proétgez
- prrotégez
- prtoégez
- rpotégez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of protégez - 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 "protégez", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).