proéminent
\pʁɔ.e.mi.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“proéminent” is uncommon French (frequency #62,545 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,545
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est plus en relief que ce qui l’environne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proeminent · proéminent · French
proéminent · rank #62,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,545
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proxima
Nearest frequency peer: proxima (-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 « proéminent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- procéda
procéda
37,460 corpus weight
- profitabili…
profitabilité
37,459 corpus weight
- profiterai
profiterai
37,458 corpus weight
- proxima
proxima
37,457 corpus weight
- proéminent
proéminent
37,456 corpus weight
- punisher
punisher
37,452 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « proéminent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proéminent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.e.mi.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « proéminent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
proéminent is uncommon French at frequency #62,545 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔ.e.mi.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est plus en relief que ce qui l’environne.".
No misspelling variants are generated for proéminent in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 proéminent, spelled P-R-O-É-M-I-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est plus en relief que ce qui l’environne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how proéminent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès qu'on le regarde mieux, on retrouve vite chez lui la tare habsbourgeoise qui, comme la lèvre proéminente de la famille se transmet de génération en génération : […].
Les yeux, latéraux sont assez gros et proéminents.
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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