protons
\pʁɔ.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“protons” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,009. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,009
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de proton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-protons · protons · French
protons · rank #37,009 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,009
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prodiges
Nearest frequency peer: prodiges (-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 « protons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poto
poto
62,995 corpus weight
- pourboires
pourboires
62,994 corpus weight
- prodiges
prodiges
62,993 corpus weight
- protons
protons
62,992 corpus weight
- prévisionnel
prévisionnel
62,991 corpus weight
- psys
psys
62,990 corpus weight
What this shows « protons » 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 | protons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « protons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around protons (IPA \pʁɔ.tɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,009 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de proton.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for protons, with forms such as "pprotons", "prootns", and "protnos". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "provins", "propos", "photos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is protons, spelled P-R-O-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de proton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how protons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une étude dans des solvants fortement basiques, dans le but de « déchélater » les groupements hydroxyle, a été entreprise, afin de tenter d’obtenir une différenciation des protons liés au noyau aromatique et des protons liés au noyau quinonique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprotons
- prootns
- protnos
- protonns
- protonss
- protosn
- prottons
- prrotons
- prtoons
- rpotons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of protons - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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