proba
\pʁɔ.ba\
The verdict
“proba” is uncommon French (frequency #66,250 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,250
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diminutif pour désigner une mesure de probabilité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proba · proba · French
proba · rank #66,250 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,250
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH procurez
Nearest frequency peer: procurez (+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 « proba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- practices
practices
33,755 corpus weight
- preference
preference
33,753 corpus weight
- proba
proba
33,751 corpus weight
- procurez
procurez
33,750 corpus weight
- profaner
profaner
33,749 corpus weight
- promenaient
promenaient
33,748 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « proba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ba\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « proba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
proba is uncommon French at frequency #66,250 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Diminutif pour désigner une mesure de probabilité.".
No misspelling variants are generated for proba in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is proba, spelled P-R-O-B-A.
Definition
- 1Diminutif pour désigner une mesure de probabilité.
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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