prolifère
\pʁɔ.li.fɛʁ\
The verdict
“prolifère” is uncommon French (frequency #80,542 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,542
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se multiplie, abondant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prolifere · prolifère · French
prolifère · rank #80,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,542
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH progressons
Nearest frequency peer: progressons (-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 « prolifère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- productivis…
productivisme
19,462 corpus weight
- proférant
proférant
19,461 corpus weight
- progressons
progressons
19,460 corpus weight
- prolifère
prolifère
19,459 corpus weight
- prophétisé
prophétisé
19,458 corpus weight
- provo
provo
19,457 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prolifère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prolifère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.li.fɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prolifère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prolifère is uncommon French at frequency #80,542 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔ.li.fɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui se multiplie, abondant.".
prolifère has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 prolifère, spelled P-R-O-L-I-F-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui se multiplie, abondant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prolifère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, s’il continue, ce n’est pas par un théorème d’adaptation, mais bien parce qu'à force de broyer de la sorte il s'est surchargé de méninges prolifères - les seules adaptées au monde occidental.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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