prosocial
"prosocial" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“prosocial” is uncommon English (frequency #71,815 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,815
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beneficial to all parties and consistent with community laws and mores.
Corpus desk
Index EN-prosocial · prosocial · English
prosocial · rank #71,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,815
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH propranolol
Nearest frequency peer: propranolol (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “prosocial”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Preeti
Preeti
28,192 corpus weight
- propitious
propitious
28,188 corpus weight
- propranolol
propranolol
28,187 corpus weight
- prosocial
prosocial
28,186 corpus weight
- purl
purl
28,182 corpus weight
- qanon
qanon
28,179 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “prosocial” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prosocial |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “prosocial” in English
Rare enough to double-check
prosocial is uncommon English at frequency #71,815 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
prosocial has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pro- + social. The correct English form is prosocial, spelled P-R-O-S-O-C-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Beneficial to all parties and consistent with community laws and mores.
- 2Contributing to a beneficial outcome by negotiation, problem solving, problem analysis, clarification, or respectful behaviors.
Etymology
From pro- + social.
Antonyms
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).