prodigalité
\pʁɔ.di.ɡa.li.te\
The verdict
“prodigalité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère, habitude de celui ou de celle qui est prodigue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prodigalite · prodigalité · French
prodigalité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prodigalité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.di.ɡa.li.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
prodigalité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.di.ɡa.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
prodigalité doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prodigalité, spelled P-R-O-D-I-G-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère, habitude de celui ou de celle qui est prodigue.
- 2Action de prodiguer.
- 3Richesse, exubérance, profusion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prodigalité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sophisme que je combats dans cet écrit est d’autant plus dangereux, appliqué aux travaux publics, qu’il sert à justifier les entreprises et les prodigalités les plus folles. Quand un chemin de fer ou un pont ont une utilité réelle, il suffit d’invoquer cette utilité. Mais si on ne le peut, que fait-on ? On a recours à cette mystification : « Il faut pr…
La parole n’était-elle pas une des plus effrayantes prodigalités de fluide vital que l’homme pouvait se permettre […].
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.