Prorogation

/[pʁoʁoɡaˈt͡si̯oːn]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

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Confusables

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Prorogation is aGermannoun. It means: Aufschub auf einen späteren Zeitpunkt, durch zum Beispiel Verlängerung einer Frist oder Vertagung eines Verfahrens Pronounced [pʁoʁoɡaˈt͡si̯oːn].

Key facts for Prorogation
PropertyValue
HeadwordProrogation
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pʁoʁoɡaˈt͡si̯oːn]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Prorogation is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Prorogation is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pʁoʁoɡaˈt͡si̯oːn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Prorogation in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Prorogation, spelled P-R-O-R-O-G-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Aufschub auf einen späteren Zeitpunkt, durch zum Beispiel Verlängerung einer Frist oder Vertagung eines Verfahrens
  2. 2
    Einigung der Parteien (nur in einem Zivilprozess möglich) über die Zuständigkeit, die Festlegung, welches Gericht in einem bestimmten Fall genutzt wird (besonders, wenn dieses eigentlich nicht zuständig ist)
  3. 3
    das formale Ende einer parlamentarischen Sitzung/Sitzungsperiode, wobei Sitzung ein längerer Zeitraum ist, in dem das Parlament seine Aufgaben (ununterbrochen durch Ferien) wahrnimmt; das Ruhen aller parlamentarischer Aktivitäten; der Zeitraum zwischen dem Ende einer Sitzungsperiode und dem Beginn der nächsten

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Prorogation"?
"Prorogation" is spelled P-R-O-R-O-G-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is [pʁoʁoɡaˈt͡si̯oːn].
What does "Prorogation" mean?
As a noun, "Prorogation" means: Aufschub auf einen späteren Zeitpunkt, durch zum Beispiel Verlängerung einer Frist oder Vertagung eines Verfahrens
How do you pronounce "Prorogation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Prorogation" is [pʁoʁoɡaˈt͡si̯oːn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Prorogation" come from?
"Prorogation" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.