pronto
The verdict
“pronto” is uncommon French (frequency #86,054 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,054
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rapidement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pronto · pronto · French
pronto · rank #86,054 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,054
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pronotum
Nearest frequency peer: pronotum (-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 « pronto »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prompteur
prompteur
13,950 corpus weight
- prononcerai
prononcerai
13,949 corpus weight
- pronotum
pronotum
13,948 corpus weight
- pronto
pronto
13,947 corpus weight
- proroger
proroger
13,945 corpus weight
- protected
protected
13,944 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pronto » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pronto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pronto » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pronto is uncommon French at frequency #86,054 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rapidement.".
pronto has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pronto, spelled P-R-O-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1Rapidement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pronto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, Abdelkader, si nous entamions une petite conversation ? Tu as vu ce qui est arrivé à ton ami ? Si tu ne tiens pas à connaître un sort identique, il va falloir l’ouvrir, et pronto.
Nous devons désédulcorer nos vies, pronto.
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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