prisma
\pʁis.ma\
The verdict
“prisma” is uncommon French (frequency #60,298 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,298
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de prismer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prisma · prisma · French
prisma · rank #60,298 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,298
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Prigent
Nearest frequency peer: Prigent (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « prisma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prestement
prestement
39,706 corpus weight
- prieurés
prieurés
39,705 corpus weight
- Prigent
Prigent
39,704 corpus weight
- prisma
prisma
39,703 corpus weight
- procurés
procurés
39,702 corpus weight
- projettes
projettes
39,701 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prisma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prisma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁis.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prisma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prisma is uncommon French at frequency #60,298 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁis.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de prismer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for prisma, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prisma, spelled P-R-I-S-M-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de prismer.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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