prononcer
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,971
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
prononcer is aFrenchverb. It means: Proférer, articuler les sons, les syllabes, les mots, en exprimer les prononciations. Pronounced \pʁɔ.nɔ̃.se\. It ranks #4,971 in French word frequency. Often confused with prononcés and prononcez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prononcer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.nɔ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prononcer is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.nɔ̃.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,971 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for prononcer, with forms such as "pornoncer", "pprononcer", and "prnooncer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "prononcés", "prononcez", "prononcera", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is prononcer, spelled P-R-O-N-O-N-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Proférer, articuler les sons, les syllabes, les mots, en exprimer les prononciations.
- 2Réciter, débiter, faire entendre.
- 3Déclarer avec autorité, en vertu de son autorité.
- 4Déclarer solennellement ce qui a été décidé à la pluralité des voix, en parlant de celui qui préside une juridiction ou une assemblée.
- 5Déclarer son sentiment sur quelque chose, décider, ordonner.
- 6Bien marquer, rendre très sensible quelque partie d’une figure.
- 7Faire voir, manifester son intention, son opinion, son caractère en quelque affaire, en quelque occasion.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pornoncer,pprononcer,prnooncer,pronnocer,pronnoncer,pronocner,prononccer,prononcerr,prononcre,prononecr,prononncer,proonncer,prrononcer,rpononcer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prononcer
Misspelling Variants of "prononcer"
Frequency rank: #4,971 in French
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Nearby French words
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