promptitude
\pʁɔ̃p.ti.tyd\
The verdict
“promptitude” is uncommon French (frequency #71,819 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,819
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rapidité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-promptitude · promptitude · French
promptitude · rank #71,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,819
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH privatives
Nearest frequency peer: privatives (-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 « promptitude »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pressentis
pressentis
28,185 corpus weight
- privatives
privatives
28,183 corpus weight
- promptitude
promptitude
28,182 corpus weight
- propulsant
propulsant
28,181 corpus weight
- prostatique
prostatique
28,180 corpus weight
- prostituent
prostituent
28,179 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « promptitude » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | promptitude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ̃p.ti.tyd\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #71,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « promptitude » en français
Rare enough to double-check
promptitude is uncommon French at frequency #71,819 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ̃p.ti.tyd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for promptitude, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is promptitude, spelled P-R-O-M-P-T-I-T-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Rapidité.
- 2Disposition qui fait qu’on ne met aucun délai à entreprendre ou à exécuter.
- 3Vivacité de l’esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how promptitude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maintenant que j'ai exposé le procédé de M. Mathieu, je dois ajouter de suite que son expérience lui a appris que toutes les bruyères ne s'enracinent pas avec la même promptitude, et que, s'il y en a qui se trouvent bien enracinées après deux mois de couchage, il en est d'autres auxquelles il faut quatre, cinq ou six mois, et encore davantage.
Le chevalier en fit autant avec une justesse et une promptitude qui tenaient de la magie.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).