prolétariat

Name: prolétariat, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\pʁɔ.le.ta.ʁja\

/\pʁɔ.le.ta.ʁja\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“prolétariat” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,837. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,837
frequency rank, French: 6,826
“P” headwords: 17
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Classe des travailleur libre qui, dépourvus d’accès aux moyens de production, n’ont à vendre que leur force de travail contre un salaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-proletariat · prolétariat · French

prolétariat · rank #18,837 · 17 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #18,837
LEN-MEGA 11 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 17 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,826
PHOTO-FINISH produise

Nearest frequency peer: produise (-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.

private

81,167
productrice

81,166
produise

81,165
prolétariat

81,164
proposa

81,163
préférerais

81,162

What this shows « prolétariat » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Key facts for prolétariat
Property	Value
Headword	prolétariat
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\pʁɔ.le.ta.ʁja\
Letters	11
Frequency rank	#18,837
Misspellings tracked	17
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prolétariat »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.prolétariatse place ici:

#18,837

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « produise » (#18,836), « proposa » (#18,838), « productrice » (#18,835). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prolétariat » est au #18,837. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around prolétariat (IPA \pʁɔ.le.ta.ʁja\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,837 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for prolétariat, with forms such as "porlétariat", "pprolétariat", and "prloétariat". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is prolétariat, spelled P-R-O-L-É-T-A-R-I-A-T.

Definition

1
Classe des travailleur libre qui, dépourvus d’accès aux moyens de production, n’ont à vendre que leur force de travail contre un salaire.
2
Classe ouvrière d’un pays, d’une ville ou d’un secteur à une époque donnée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how prolétariat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Cette domestication des conduites sexuelles me parait essentielle en ce qu’elle accompagne et même, semble-t-il, précède l’atténuation de la violence diffuse au sein du prolétariat, processus qui recouvre, on le sait, tout le XIXᵉ siècle.
Aucun autre prolétariat n’est aussi riche en souvenirs historiques, car aucun n’a eu une destinée aussi dramatique que le prolétariat français.

This word in other languages

proletariat(English)proletariado(Español)Proletariat(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

porlétariat
pprolétariat
prloétariat
proletariat
prollétariat
proltéariat
proléatriat
prolétairat
prolétarait
prolétariatt
prolétarita
prolétarriat
prolétraiat
proléttariat
proéltariat
prrolétariat
rpolétariat

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prolétariat - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "prolétariat"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prolétariat"?

"prolétariat" is spelled P-R-O-L-É-T-A-R-I-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔ.le.ta.ʁja\.

What does "prolétariat" mean?

As a noun, "prolétariat" means: Classe des travailleur libre qui, dépourvus d’accès aux moyens de production, n’ont à vendre que leur force de travail contre un salaire.

What are common misspellings of "prolétariat"?

Common misspellings include "porlétariat", "pprolétariat", "prloétariat", "proletariat", "prollétariat". The correct spelling is "prolétariat".

How do you pronounce "prolétariat"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prolétariat" is \pʁɔ.le.ta.ʁja\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "prolétariat" come from?

"prolétariat" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prolétariat", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

préférerais#18,839 productrice#18,835 prétentions#18,842 participera#18,824

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

déclinaison17 variants coordinateur17 variants contribuant17 variants consistance17 variants