prothèse
\pʁɔ.tɛz\
The verdict
“prothèse” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,531. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,531
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil servant à remplacer un organe ou un membre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prothese · prothèse · French
prothèse · rank #20,531 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,531
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prestigieuses
Nearest frequency peer: prestigieuses (-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 « prothèse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- postérieure
postérieure
79,473 corpus weight
- pourboire
pourboire
79,472 corpus weight
- prestigieus…
prestigieuses
79,471 corpus weight
- prothèse
prothèse
79,470 corpus weight
- proue
proue
79,469 corpus weight
- provençal
provençal
79,468 corpus weight
What this shows « prothèse » 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 | prothèse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.tɛz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prothèse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around prothèse (IPA \pʁɔ.tɛz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,531 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for prothèse, with forms such as "porthèse", "pprothèse", and "prohtèse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "prothèses", "proches", "protégé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 prothèse, spelled P-R-O-T-H-È-S-E.
Definition
- 1Appareil servant à remplacer un organe ou un membre.
- 2Ce que l'on ajoute au corps pour améliorer ses performances.
- 3Fait d’ajouter un son au début d’un mot sans en changer le sens, pour des motifs articulatoires ou stylistiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prothèse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La notion de raideur sur prothèse du genou est relative. Un genou normal fléchit jusqu'à 150° mais la flexion d'un genou prothétique dépasse rarement 120°.
La dentisterie restauratrice en rapport avec le parodonte comprend la prothèse fixée pour le traitement de l’édentement et la prothèse unitaire ou l’odontologie restauratrice, collée ou scellée.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porthèse
- pprothèse
- prohtèse
- prothese
- prothhèse
- prothsèe
- prothèes
- prothèsse
- protthèse
- protèhse
- prrothèse
- prtohèse
- rpothèse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prothèse - 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
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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).