proparoxyton
\pʁɔ.pa.ʁɔk.si.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“proparoxyton” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot qui a l’accent sur l’antépénultième syllabe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proparoxyton · proparoxyton · French
proparoxyton · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proparoxyton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.pa.ʁɔk.si.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « proparoxyton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
proparoxyton is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.pa.ʁɔk.si.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mot qui a l’accent sur l’antépénultième syllabe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for proparoxyton in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 proparoxyton, spelled P-R-O-P-A-R-O-X-Y-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Mot qui a l’accent sur l’antépénultième syllabe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how proparoxyton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par suite, tout proparoxyton qui s’accroît d’une syllabe vers la fin, en cours de flexion, voit son accent se déplacer d’au moins une syllabe vers la fin.
Dans les proparoxytons (mots accentués sur la 3ᵉ syllabe en partant de la fin du mot) la voyelle placée entre la syllabe accentuée et la syllabe finale tombe.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.