prony
French, noun/pʁɔ.ni/
prony is spelled P-R-O-N-Y (5 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 101,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prony is a French masculine noun meaning “an interval (defined on a logarithmic scale) between two sounds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité de mesure des intervalles de fréquence entre deux sons”.
What does prony mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinean interval (defined on a logarithmic scale) between two sounds
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unité de mesure des intervalles de fréquence entre deux sons. 2. Ancienne unité de mesure de puissance proposée par Édouard Hospitalier, et qui valait 10kg.m.s⁻².
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of prony
- pronys plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prony?
- /pʁɔ.ni/
- \pʁɔ.ni\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is prony in French?
prony appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).