prohibe
\pʁɔ.ib\
The verdict
“prohibe” is uncommon French (frequency #82,363 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,363
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de prohiber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prohibe · prohibe · French
prohibe · rank #82,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,363
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH progressera
Nearest frequency peer: progressera (-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 « prohibe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prierais
prierais
17,641 corpus weight
- procurateur
procurateur
17,640 corpus weight
- progressera
progressera
17,639 corpus weight
- prohibe
prohibe
17,638 corpus weight
- prolétarien
prolétarien
17,637 corpus weight
- pronostiquer
pronostiquer
17,636 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prohibe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prohibe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ib\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prohibe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prohibe is uncommon French at frequency #82,363 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.ib\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for prohibe, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is prohibe, spelled P-R-O-H-I-B-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de prohiber.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de prohiber.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de prohiber.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de prohiber.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de prohiber.
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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