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prostyle

adjective, noun

prostyle is spelled P-R-O-S-T-Y-L-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, prostyle means “Having pillars only along the front side” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in prostyle?

Letters8: P-R-O-S-T-Y-L-E
In writingabout once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is prostyle?

Prostyle appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).

Forms of prostyle

  • prostyles plural

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

What does prostyle mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Having pillars only along the front side

noun

  1. 1

    A building having pillars only along the front side

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

Prostyle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense building:

LanguageWords
Frenchprostyle
GermanProstylos
Spanishpróstilo

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 prostyle come from?

Ancient Greek πρόστυλος (próstulos, “having pillars”).

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

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