prolo
\pʁɔ.lo\
The verdict
“prolo” is uncommon French (frequency #75,112 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,112
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propre au monde des prolétaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prolo · prolo · French
prolo · rank #75,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,112
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prolapsus
Nearest frequency peer: prolapsus (-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 « prolo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- primature
primature
24,892 corpus weight
- profitèrent
profitèrent
24,891 corpus weight
- prolapsus
prolapsus
24,890 corpus weight
- prolo
prolo
24,889 corpus weight
- prononciati…
prononciations
24,888 corpus weight
- prospecteur
prospecteur
24,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prolo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prolo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.lo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prolo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prolo is uncommon French at frequency #75,112 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔ.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Propre au monde des prolétaires.".
prolo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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.
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 prolo, spelled P-R-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1Propre au monde des prolétaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prolo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peu importe si tu l’appelles Wal-Mart Bougon ou Pitt Bougon (c’est plus prolo que Chanel ou Vuitton), cet enfant sera aimé, entouré, cajolé, investi par un clan.
Même la poutine peut être snob et le foie gras prolo.
Synonyms
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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