prolétariat
\pʁɔ.le.ta.ʁja\
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
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “prolétariat” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around prolétariat (IPA \pʁɔ.le.ta.ʁja\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,837 among 248,534 “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
- 1Classe des travailleur libre qui, dépourvus d’accès aux moyens de production, n’ont à vendre que leur force de travail contre un salaire.
- 2Classe ouvrière d’un pays, d’une ville ou d’un secteur à une époque donnée.
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “prolétariat”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-O-L-É-T-A-R-I-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁɔ.le.ta.ʁja\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.