proforme
\pʁo.fɔʁm\
The verdict
“proforme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot-outil qui peut prendre la place d’un syntagme ou d’une phrase. Selon la nature du syntagme, les proformes sont classées en pronoms, pro-verbes, pro-adverbes, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proforme · proforme · French
proforme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | proforme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁo.fɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « proforme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
proforme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁo.fɔʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mot-outil qui peut prendre la place d’un syntagme ou d’une phrase. Selon la nature du syntagme, les proformes sont classées en pronoms, pro-verbes, pro-adverbes, etc.".
proforme doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is proforme, spelled P-R-O-F-O-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Mot-outil qui peut prendre la place d’un syntagme ou d’une phrase. Selon la nature du syntagme, les proformes sont classées en pronoms, pro-verbes, pro-adverbes, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how proforme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le même verbe oriente, par la proforme, vers deux analyses possibles.
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.