prodigieusement
\pʁɔ.di.ʒjøz.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“prodigieusement” is uncommon French (frequency #67,792 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,792
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière prodigieuse, en tenant du prodige.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prodigieusement · prodigieusement · French
prodigieusement · rank #67,792 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,792
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH procédural
Nearest frequency peer: procédural (-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 « prodigieusement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PRL
PRL
32,212 corpus weight
- procédural
procédural
32,210 corpus weight
- prodigieuse…
prodigieusement
32,209 corpus weight
- propagandes
propagandes
32,207 corpus weight
- propylène
propylène
32,206 corpus weight
- prosodie
prosodie
32,205 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prodigieusement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prodigieusement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.di.ʒjøz.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #67,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prodigieusement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prodigieusement is uncommon French at frequency #67,792 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \pʁɔ.di.ʒjøz.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
prodigieusement doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 prodigieusement, spelled P-R-O-D-I-G-I-E-U-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière prodigieuse, en tenant du prodige.
- 2En très grande quantité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prodigieusement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[Dans la chaire] On parlait latin, et longtemps, devant des femmes et des marguilliers ; on a parlé grec : il fallait savoir prodigieusement pour prêcher si mal.
Il est vrai que son Alcine [de l’Arioste] est prodigieusement supérieure à la Circé de l’Odyssée ; mais enfin Homère est le premier….
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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