prolétaire

/\pʁɔ.le.tɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#41,974

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

prolétaire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne appartenant à la sixième et dernière classe du peuple (le proletarius), et qui, étant très pauvre et exempt d’impôts, n’était utile du point de vue de l’État que par les enfants engendrés ... Pronounced \pʁɔ.le.tɛʁ\. Often confused with prolétaires.

Key facts for prolétaire
PropertyValue
Headwordprolétaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɔ.le.tɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#41,974
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of prolétaire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prolétaire is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.le.tɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,974 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for prolétaire, with forms such as "porlétaire", "pprolétaire", and "prloétaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "prolétaires", 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 prolétaire, spelled P-R-O-L-É-T-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne appartenant à la sixième et dernière classe du peuple (le proletarius), et qui, étant très pauvre et exempt d’impôts, n’était utile du point de vue de l’État que par les enfants engendrés par cette dernière.
  2. 2
    Personne qui ne possède pour vivre que les revenus que lui procure une activité salariée.
  3. 3
    Personne qui ne possède plus ses savoirs, desquels elle a été dépossédée par l’utilisation d’une technique (savoir-faire, savoir-vivre, savoir-penser). Concept stieglerien.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: porlétaire,pprolétaire,prloétaire,proletaire,prollétaire,proltéaire,proléatire,prolétaier,prolétairre,prolétarie,prolétiare,proléttaire,proéltaire,prrolétaire,rpolétaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prolétaire

Misspelling Variants of "prolétaire"

porlétaire10pprolétaire11prloétaire10proletaire10prollétaire11proltéaire10proléatire10prolétaier10
Misspelling Variants of "prolétaire"

Frequency rank: #41,974 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prolétaire"?
"prolétaire" is spelled P-R-O-L-É-T-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.le.tɛʁ\.
What does "prolétaire" mean?
As a noun, "prolétaire" means: Personne appartenant à la sixième et dernière classe du peuple (le proletarius), et qui, étant très pauvre et exempt d’impôts, n’était utile du point de vue de l’État que par les enfants engendrés ...
What words are commonly confused with "prolétaire"?
"prolétaire" is commonly confused with "prolétaires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prolétaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prolétaire" is \pʁɔ.le.tɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prolétaire" come from?
"prolétaire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.