procrastiner
\pʁɔ.kʁas.ti.ne\
The verdict
“procrastiner” is uncommon French (frequency #78,752 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,752
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Reporter au lendemain, remettre à plus tard quelque chose
Corpus desk
Index FR-procrastiner · procrastiner · French
procrastiner · rank #78,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,752
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH professent
Nearest frequency peer: professent (+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 « procrastiner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pozzi
pozzi
21,254 corpus weight
- procrastiner
procrastiner
21,249 corpus weight
- professent
professent
21,248 corpus weight
- professer
professer
21,247 corpus weight
- progiciels
progiciels
21,246 corpus weight
- projective
projective
21,245 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « procrastiner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | procrastiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.kʁas.ti.ne\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #78,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « procrastiner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
procrastiner is uncommon French at frequency #78,752 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.kʁas.ti.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Reporter au lendemain, remettre à plus tard quelque chose".
Zero misspellings are on record for procrastiner in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 procrastiner, spelled P-R-O-C-R-A-S-T-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Reporter au lendemain, remettre à plus tard quelque chose
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how procrastiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si vous croyez que Dieu tarde trop, attendez le, & asseurez vous qu’il viendra, & qu’il n’arrestera pas. Il vous est advis qu’il procrastine, mais en vérité non fait.
Sa difficulté à choisir, à se décider, le fait parfois attendre jusqu’au dernier moment : il procrastine, selon le mot de Proust (= repousse au lendemain).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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