prohibitifs
\pʁɔ.i.bi.tif\
The verdict
“prohibitifs” is uncommon French (frequency #54,808 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,808
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de prohibitif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prohibitifs · prohibitifs · French
prohibitifs · rank #54,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,808
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH promettez
Nearest frequency peer: promettez (+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 « prohibitifs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prin
prin
45,196 corpus weight
- proactive
proactive
45,195 corpus weight
- prohibitifs
prohibitifs
45,193 corpus weight
- promettez
promettez
45,192 corpus weight
- properties
properties
45,191 corpus weight
- provençales
provençales
45,190 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prohibitifs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prohibitifs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.i.bi.tif\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prohibitifs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prohibitifs is uncommon French at frequency #54,808 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔ.i.bi.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de prohibitif.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for prohibitifs, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is prohibitifs, spelled P-R-O-H-I-B-I-T-I-F-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de prohibitif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prohibitifs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le manque de terres arables et la faible diversité des fruits et légumes cultivés ont favorisé les importations de produits alimentaires, vendus à des prix prohibitifs.
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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