proche de
\pʁɔʃ də\
The verdict
“proche de” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a preposition - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Près de, auprès de.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proche de |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \pʁɔʃ də\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “proche de” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for proche de is 9 letters long, classified as a preposition, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔʃ də\. 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: "Près de, auprès de.".
Zero misspellings are on record for proche de in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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. The correct French form is proche de, spelled P-R-O-C-H-E- -D-E.
Definition
- 1Près de, auprès de.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “proche de”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-O-C-H-E- -D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.