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prorogue

/pɹoʊˈɹoʊɡ/verb

prorogue is spelled P-R-O-R-O-G-U-E: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, prorogue means “To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in prorogue?

Letters8: P-R-O-R-O-G-U-E
Syllables2 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 145,125th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is prorogue?

Prorogue appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce prorogue?

  • UK /pɹə(ʊ)ˈɹəʊɡ/
  • US /pɹoʊˈɹoʊɡ/

Prorogue has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-prorogue.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with prorogue?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as prorogue from its last stressed vowel (/oʊɡ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of prorogue

  • prorogues present, singular, he/she/it
  • proroguing participle, present
  • prorogued participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does prorogue mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session.

  2. 2

    archaicTo defer.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo prolong or extend.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Prorogue in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchproroger (to suspend a parliamentary session)
Germanvertagen (to suspend a parliamentary session), verschieben, aufschieben (to defer), verlängern (to prolong or extend)
Spanishprorrogar (to suspend a parliamentary session)
Portugueseprorrogar (to prolong or extend)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does prorogue come from?

From Old French proroger, proroguer, from Latin prōrogō (“prolong, defer”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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