cancer de la prostate
\kɑ̃.sɛʁ də la pʁɔs.tat\
The verdict
“cancer de la prostate” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forme la plus courante de cancer chez l'homme, où la tumeur se développe dans les cellules de la prostate.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cancer de la prostate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.sɛʁ də la pʁɔs.tat\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cancer de la prostate” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cancer de la prostate is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɑ̃.sɛʁ də la pʁɔs.tat\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forme la plus courante de cancer chez l'homme, où la tumeur se développe dans les cellules de la prostate.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cancer de la prostate in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cancer de la prostate, spelled C-A-N-C-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -P-R-O-S-T-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forme la plus courante de cancer chez l'homme, où la tumeur se développe dans les cellules de la prostate.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-C-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -P-R-O-S-T-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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