proie
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,874
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
proie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Animal vivant qu’un animal carnassier ravit pour le manger. Pronounced \pʁwa\. It ranks #6,874 in French word frequency. Often confused with pros and prou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁwa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for proie is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,874 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for proie, with forms such as "porie", "pproie", and "prioe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pros", "prou", "prom", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is proie, spelled P-R-O-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Animal vivant qu’un animal carnassier ravit pour le manger.
- 2Ce dont on s’empare pour s’en nourrir.
- 3Butin fait à la guerre, et généralement, toute chose dont on s’empare avec violence, avec une sorte de rapacité.
- 4Personne qui a beaucoup à souffrir des passions des autres ou de sa propre passion.
- 5Action d'être soumis au ravage ou à la destruction.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porie,pproie,prioe,proei,prroie,rpoie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for proie
Misspelling Variants of "proie"
Frequency rank: #6,874 in French
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