prophylactique
\pʁɔ.fi.lak.tik\
The verdict
“prophylactique” is uncommon French (frequency #73,461 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,461
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médicament utilisé pour prévenir l'apparition ou l'aggravation d'une maladie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prophylactique · prophylactique · French
prophylactique · rank #73,461 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,461
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH promenons
Nearest frequency peer: promenons (-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 « prophylactique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prods
prods
26,543 corpus weight
- produisez
produisez
26,542 corpus weight
- promenons
promenons
26,541 corpus weight
- prophylacti…
prophylactique
26,540 corpus weight
- Proteus
Proteus
26,539 corpus weight
- Préalpes
Préalpes
26,538 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prophylactique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prophylactique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.fi.lak.tik\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #73,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prophylactique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prophylactique is uncommon French at frequency #73,461 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.fi.lak.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Médicament utilisé pour prévenir l'apparition ou l'aggravation d'une maladie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for prophylactique in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 prophylactique, spelled P-R-O-P-H-Y-L-A-C-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Médicament utilisé pour prévenir l'apparition ou l'aggravation d'une maladie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prophylactique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’aspect seul de ce chevalier de la couperose et de l’eczéma, muselé de croûtes perpétuelles eût dû être, pour les amateurs de sa compagne, le plus efficace des prophylactiques.
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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