Prussien
\pʁy.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“Prussien” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,779. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,779
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de la Prusse, duché puis royaume d’Europe orientale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prussien · Prussien · French
Prussien · rank #25,779 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,779
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Provençale
Nearest frequency peer: Provençale (-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 « Prussien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- protesté
protesté
74,224 corpus weight
- Provençale
Provençale
74,223 corpus weight
- Prussien
Prussien
74,222 corpus weight
- Ptolémée
Ptolémée
74,221 corpus weight
- publiait
publiait
74,220 corpus weight
- pédiatrie
pédiatrie
74,219 corpus weight
What this shows « Prussien » 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 | Prussien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁy.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Prussien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Prussien (IPA \pʁy.sjɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,779 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Habitant de la Prusse, duché puis royaume d’Europe orientale.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Prussien, with forms such as "pprussien", "prrussien", and "prsusien". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "prussiens", "prussienne", "Prusse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Prussien, spelled P-R-U-S-S-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Habitant de la Prusse, duché puis royaume d’Europe orientale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Prussien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] mais ce n’est que le commencement de plus grands malheurs : ces Prussiens, ces Autrichiens, ces Russes, ces Espagnols, et tous ces peuples que nous avons pillés depuis 1804, vont profiter de notre misère pour tomber sur nous.
On dit qu’ils ne sont pas tous méchants ou cupides, que les vrais Allemands ne le sont même pas du tout et demandent qu’on ne les confonde pas avec les Prussiens, tous voleurs ! Vous réclamez en vain, bonnes gens ; vous oubliez qu’il n’y a plus d’Allemagne, que vous êtes Prussiens, solidaires de toutes leurs exactions, puisque vous allez en profiter, et q…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pprussien
- prrussien
- prsusien
- prusien
- prusisen
- prussein
- prussienn
- prussine
- purssien
- rpussien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Prussien - 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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).