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Common wordJLPTN2Freq.FrequencyTop 5,000

Meanings

Refers to the steps, stages, or progression by which something happens or is achieved. Often used in technical, academic, and everyday contexts.

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工程 refers to concrete steps in a workflow, especially manufacturing, while 過程 is broader and covers any developmental or temporal progression.

プロセス is a loanword common in business or IT contexts, while 過程 sounds more natural in formal or written Japanese for abstract developments.

経過 emphasizes the passage of time or how a situation has unfolded so far, whereas 過程 focuses on the stages or mechanism leading to a result.

段階 refers to a single stage or phase within a progression, while 過程 refers to the whole sequence of stages taken together.

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経けい路ろN1
過程 refers generally to the stages a process goes through, while 経路 in this sense emphasizes the specific sequence of steps or channel a process passes along.
途と上じょうN1
過程 emphasizes the stages or steps of a process, while 途上 simply marks that something is still ongoing or unfinished.
道みちのり
過程 means the process or stages of something in general, while 道のり figuratively describes the journey or path toward a goal.

Don't confuse with

課程 (a course of study) and 過程 (a process or stage of development) are pronounced identically but refer to completely different concepts.

過程 (かてい) means 'process' and is unrelated in meaning to 仮定 (かてい) 'assumption', despite sharing the same pronunciation.

過程 means an abstract process or stage of development, unlike 行程 which is a concrete travel distance or route.