prolapsus
\pʁo.lap.sys\
The verdict
“prolapsus” is uncommon French (frequency #75,111 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,111
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abaissement d’un organe suite à un relâchement, une distension de ses attaches naturelles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prolapsus · prolapsus · French
prolapsus · rank #75,111 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,111
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH profitèrent
Nearest frequency peer: profitèrent (-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 « prolapsus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- primal
primal
24,893 corpus weight
- primature
primature
24,892 corpus weight
- profitèrent
profitèrent
24,891 corpus weight
- prolapsus
prolapsus
24,890 corpus weight
- prolo
prolo
24,889 corpus weight
- prononciati…
prononciations
24,888 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prolapsus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prolapsus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁo.lap.sys\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prolapsus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prolapsus is uncommon French at frequency #75,111 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁo.lap.sys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abaissement d’un organe suite à un relâchement, une distension de ses attaches naturelles.".
No misspelling variants are generated for prolapsus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prolapsus, spelled P-R-O-L-A-P-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Abaissement d’un organe suite à un relâchement, une distension de ses attaches naturelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prolapsus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prolapsus rectal, descente du rectum à travers l’anus.
Un prolapsus c’est une ptôse, une descente d’organes. Tous les organes de son pelvis sont descendus, l’utérus en premier. Ça a lâché.
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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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