# Proust

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /pɹuːst/ · frequency rank #38,115

## Definitions
1. A surname from French.
2. Marcel Proust

## Easily confused with
- **provost** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/proust-vs-provost)
- **post** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/post-vs-proust)
- **pros** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pros-vs-proust)
- **pout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pout-vs-proust)
- **Prot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/prot-vs-proust)
- **proud** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/proud-vs-proust)
- **props** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/props-vs-proust)
- **prose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/prose-vs-proust)
- **pious** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pious-vs-proust)
- **Prius** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/prius-vs-proust)
- **probs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/probs-vs-proust)
- **profit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/profit-vs-proust)
- **priest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/priest-vs-proust)
- **prompt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/prompt-vs-proust)
- **porous** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/porous-vs-proust)
- **product** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/product-vs-proust)
- **protest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/protest-vs-proust)

## Common misspellings (9)
`porust`, `pproust`, `prosut`, `prousst`, `proustt`, `prouts`, `prroust`, `pruost`, `rpoust`

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