procès
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,274
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
procès is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instance, procédure engagée devant un juge et portant sur un différend, un litige opposant deux ou plusieurs parties. Pronounced \pʁɔ.sɛ\. It ranks #1,274 in French word frequency. Often confused with pros and profs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | procès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for procès is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.sɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,274 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for procès, with forms such as "porcès", "pprocès", and "prcoès". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pros", "profs", "proie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 procès, spelled P-R-O-C-È-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instance, procédure engagée devant un juge et portant sur un différend, un litige opposant deux ou plusieurs parties.
- 2Ensemble des pièces produites par l’une et l’autre partie, pour servir à l’instruction et au jugement d’une telle instance.
- 3Formation qui prolonge un organe, une structure, un tissu.
- 4Marche, développement, progrès (fort employé en ce sens dans l’ancienne langue).
- 5Ce qu'indique un verbe quand il réalise une action posée par le sujet de la proposition.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porcès,pprocès,prcoès,proccès,proces,procsè,procèss,proècs,prrocès,rpocès
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for procès
Misspelling Variants of "procès"
Frequency rank: #1,274 in French
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