prosocial
"prosocial" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“prosocial” is an uncommon English word, ranked #71,815 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #71,815
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Beneficial to all parties and consistent with community laws and mores.
| 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) |
Where “prosocial” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for prosocial is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #71,815 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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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Using “prosocial”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-R-O-S-O-C-I-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.