proconsul
\pʁo.kɔ̃.syl\
The verdict
“proconsul” is uncommon French (frequency #54,178 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,178
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui, chez les Romains, gouvernait certaines grandes provinces, avec l’autorité de consul.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proconsul · proconsul · French
proconsul · rank #54,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,178
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH primitivement
Nearest frequency peer: primitivement (-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 « proconsul »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PPR
PPR
45,826 corpus weight
- Priam
Priam
45,825 corpus weight
- primitiveme…
primitivement
45,824 corpus weight
- proconsul
proconsul
45,823 corpus weight
- prophylaxie
prophylaxie
45,821 corpus weight
- prostitue
prostitue
45,820 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « proconsul » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proconsul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁo.kɔ̃.syl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « proconsul » en français
Rare enough to double-check
proconsul is uncommon French at frequency #54,178 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁo.kɔ̃.syl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for proconsul in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 proconsul, spelled P-R-O-C-O-N-S-U-L.
Definition
- 1Celui qui, chez les Romains, gouvernait certaines grandes provinces, avec l’autorité de consul.
- 2Commissaire que la Convention envoyait dans les départements insurgés, dans les pays conquis ou auprès des armées.
- 3Personne qui exerce un pouvoir sans contrôle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how proconsul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cicéron, quelque temps après son consulat, fut envoyé comme proconsul en Cilicie.
— Je jouais, d’ailleurs, bien mal mon rôle, n’est-ce pas ? reprit-elle en regardant Crevel avec la douceur que les martyrs devaient mettre en jetant les yeux sur le proconsul.
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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