progestérone
\pʁɔ.ʒɛs.te.ʁɔn\
The verdict
“progestérone” is uncommon French (frequency #64,019 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,019
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hormone stéroïde dérivée du cholestérol, principalement sécrétée par le corps jaune des ovaires et le placenta et impliquée dans le cycle œstral ou menstruel féminin, la gestation et l’embryogenèse...
Corpus desk
Index FR-progesterone · progestérone · French
progestérone · rank #64,019 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,019
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH promulguées
Nearest frequency peer: promulguées (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “progestérone”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- PQR
PQR
35,986 corpus weight
- praia
praia
35,985 corpus weight
- prayer
prayer
35,984 corpus weight
- progestérone
progestérone
35,982 corpus weight
- promulguées
promulguées
35,981 corpus weight
- propaganda
propaganda
35,979 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “progestérone” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | progestérone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ʒɛs.te.ʁɔn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #64,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “progestérone” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
progestérone is uncommon French at frequency #64,019 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.ʒɛs.te.ʁɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hormone stéroïde dérivée du cholestérol, principalement sécrétée par le corps jaune des ovaires et le placenta et impliquée dans le cycle œstral ou menstruel féminin, la gestation et l’embryogenèse...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for progestérone, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is progestérone, spelled P-R-O-G-E-S-T-É-R-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Hormone stéroïde dérivée du cholestérol, principalement sécrétée par le corps jaune des ovaires et le placenta et impliquée dans le cycle œstral ou menstruel féminin, la gestation et l’embryogenèse des humains et d’autres espèces.
Synonyms
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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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "progestérone", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.