procurateur
\pʁɔ.ky.ʁa.tœʁ\
The verdict
“procurateur” is uncommon French (frequency #82,361 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,361
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans l'Antiquité romaine, titre que portaient certains magistrats de l’Empire chargés notamment de lever des impôts, gérer les bureaux de la chancellerie, gouverner certaines provinces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-procurateur · procurateur · French
procurateur · rank #82,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,361
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prierais
Nearest frequency peer: prierais (-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 « procurateur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poussiéreus…
poussiéreuses
17,644 corpus weight
- prierais
prierais
17,641 corpus weight
- procurateur
procurateur
17,640 corpus weight
- progressera
progressera
17,639 corpus weight
- prohibe
prohibe
17,638 corpus weight
- prolétarien
prolétarien
17,637 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « procurateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | procurateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ky.ʁa.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #82,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « procurateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
procurateur is uncommon French at frequency #82,361 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.ky.ʁa.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for procurateur in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 procurateur, spelled P-R-O-C-U-R-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Dans l'Antiquité romaine, titre que portaient certains magistrats de l’Empire chargés notamment de lever des impôts, gérer les bureaux de la chancellerie, gouverner certaines provinces.
- 2Au Moyen Âge et dans les Temps modernes, nom donné, dans les républiques de Venise et de Gênes, à un magistrat investi d'une fonction administrative.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how procurateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le procurateur de Judée.
À Venise, le procurateur de Saint-Marc était chargé de la gestion des dotations de la basilique Saint-Marc, de l'entretien et de l'embellissement des bâtiments de l'église.
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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