progrès
French, noun/pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ/
progrès is spelled P-R-O-G-R-È-S (7 letters) and appears 34 times per million words in written French, the 2,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Progrès is a French masculine noun meaning “progress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mouvement en avant de la civilisation, en général ou dans un de ses domaines particuliers”.
What does progrès mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprogress
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mouvement en avant de la civilisation, en général ou dans un de ses domaines particuliers. 2. Avancement, mouvement en avant. 3. Toute sorte d’avancement, d’augmentation en bien ou en mal. 4. Suite d’avantages remportés à la guerre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce progrès?
- /pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ/
- \pʁɔ.ɡʁɛ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to progrès
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is progrès in French?
progrès appears 34 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).