# proud

> English word · Adjective · IPA /pɹaʊd/ · frequency rank #1,735

## Definitions
1. Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
2. Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
3. Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
4. Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
5. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
6. standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
7. Standing out or raised; swollen.
8. Brave, valiant; gallant.
9. Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.

## Etymology
From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English prūd, prūt (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English prȳtung (“pride”); prȳde, prȳte (“pride”)), probably from Old French prod, prud (“brave, gallant”) (modern French preux), from Late Latin prōde (“useful”), derived from Latin prōdesse (“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives prȳte, prȳtian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. Compare Old Norse prýði (“ornament; gallantry, bravery”). See also pride.
Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (“gallant, brave, magnificent, stately, handsome, fine”) (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud).

## Easily confused with
- **prove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/proud-vs-prove)
- **proxy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/proud-vs-proxy)
- **Provo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/proud-vs-provo)
- **prowl** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/proud-vs-prowl)
- **prude** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/proud-vs-prude)
- **proved** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/proud-vs-proved)
- **Proust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/proud-vs-proust)
- **proudly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/proud-vs-proudly)
- **pro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pro-vs-proud)
- **pod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pod-vs-proud)
- **pour** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pour-vs-proud)
- **pond** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pond-vs-proud)
- **pros** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pros-vs-proud)
- **prom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/prom-vs-proud)
- **prop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/prop-vs-proud)
- **prob** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/prob-vs-proud)
- **prod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/prod-vs-proud)
- **proc** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/proc-vs-proud)
- **prog** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/prog-vs-proud)
- **pout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pout-vs-proud)

## Common misspellings (7)
`porud`, `pproud`, `produ`, `proudd`, `prroud`, `pruod`, `rpoud`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/proud