pullulent
\py.lyl\
The verdict
“pullulent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,661. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,661
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de pulluler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pullulent · pullulent · French
pullulent · rank #35,661 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #35,661
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puisant
Nearest frequency peer: puisant (-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 « pullulent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- présidait
présidait
64,343 corpus weight
- psychédéliq…
psychédélique
64,342 corpus weight
- puisant
puisant
64,341 corpus weight
- pullulent
pullulent
64,340 corpus weight
- Py
Py
64,338 corpus weight
- pénalement
pénalement
64,337 corpus weight
What this shows « pullulent » 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 | pullulent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \py.lyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pullulent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pullulent (IPA \py.lyl\), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,661 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pullulent, with forms such as "plululent", "ppullulent", and "pullluent". 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, "polluent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pullulent, spelled P-U-L-L-U-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de pulluler.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de pulluler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pullulent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis mercredi, sur Twitter, les messages de remerciements à des profs inoubliables pullulent.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- plululent
- ppullulent
- pullluent
- pulluelnt
- pullulennt
- pullulentt
- pulluletn
- pullullent
- pullulnet
- pululent
- pulullent
- upllulent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pullulent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pullulent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).