prolétaire
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prolétaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.le.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #41,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Personne 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.
- 2Personne qui ne possède pour vivre que les revenus que lui procure une activité salariée.
- 3Personne 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #41,974 in French
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