prototype
\pʁɔ.tɔ.tip\
The verdict
“prototype” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,276. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,276
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première ébauche fonctionnelle d’un objet, d'un concept ou d’une idée développée par un concepteur, afin d'en évaluer la pertinence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prototype · prototype · French
prototype · rank #11,276 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #11,276
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH promise
Nearest frequency peer: promise (-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 « prototype »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pluriel
pluriel
88,728 corpus weight
- promise
promise
88,726 corpus weight
- prototype
prototype
88,725 corpus weight
- protégées
protégées
88,724 corpus weight
- prouvent
prouvent
88,723 corpus weight
- précieuses
précieuses
88,722 corpus weight
What this shows « prototype » 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 | prototype |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.tɔ.tip\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prototype »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around prototype (IPA \pʁɔ.tɔ.tip\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,276 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for prototype, with forms such as "portotype", "pprototype", and "proottype". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "prototypes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is prototype, spelled P-R-O-T-O-T-Y-P-E.
Definition
- 1Première ébauche fonctionnelle d’un objet, d'un concept ou d’une idée développée par un concepteur, afin d'en évaluer la pertinence.
- 2Type d’objet propre à la programmation orientée prototype.
- 3Engin fabriqué uniquement pour une saison ou une compétition. Ces engins ne sont pas forcément uniques, mais leur(s) spécification(s) varie(nt) très souvent en fonction des contraintes du moment.
- 4Ce qui est en parfaite adéquation avec un modèle donné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prototype appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait aussi à la base un prototype qui était arrivé depuis peu de temps, c'était le dernier-né de la société Avions Marcel Dassault. L’Ouragan MD 450 le premier avion à réaction de fabrication française, […].
Le terrain était devenu une sorte de rétrospective de tout ce que l'Armée de l'Air avait compté comme prototypes depuis vingt ans.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- portotype
- pprototype
- proottype
- prototpye
- protottype
- prototyep
- prototyppe
- prototyype
- protoytpe
- prottotype
- prottoype
- prrototype
- prtootype
- rpototype
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prototype - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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