proliférer
\pʁɔ.li.fe.ʁe\
The verdict
“proliférer” is uncommon French (frequency #59,553 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,553
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se reproduire, se multiplier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proliferer · proliférer · French
proliférer · rank #59,553 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,553
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Prokofiev
Nearest frequency peer: Prokofiev (-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 « proliférer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- procédurale
procédurale
40,450 corpus weight
- Prokofiev
Prokofiev
40,449 corpus weight
- proliférer
proliférer
40,448 corpus weight
- prosaïque
prosaïque
40,447 corpus weight
- prédominent
prédominent
40,446 corpus weight
- prégnante
prégnante
40,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « proliférer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proliférer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.li.fe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « proliférer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
proliférer is uncommon French at frequency #59,553 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.li.fe.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for proliférer, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is proliférer, spelled P-R-O-L-I-F-É-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se reproduire, se multiplier.
- 2Abonder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how proliférer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si la poule bouffe des cailloux & en engendre les coquilles où marsupialiser sa progéniture, le lapin, qui pourtant prolifère & ne songe qu’à piner & lapiner, bouffe sa merde.
Plusieurs conseillers de Macron et d’autres néo-conservateurs, qui prolifèrent au sein des équipes présidentielle et gouvernementale, reprochent à leur chef vénéré d’avoir « viré de bord en Syrie », comme l’a relaté « Le Canard » la semaine dernière.
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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