proroger
\pʁɔ.ʁɔ.ʒe\
The verdict
“proroger” is uncommon French (frequency #86,056 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,056
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prolonger le temps qui avait été pris, qui avait été donné pour quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proroger · proroger · French
proroger · rank #86,056 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,056
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH protected
Nearest frequency peer: protected (+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 « proroger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pronotum
pronotum
13,948 corpus weight
- pronto
pronto
13,947 corpus weight
- proroger
proroger
13,945 corpus weight
- protected
protected
13,944 corpus weight
- protestait
protestait
13,943 corpus weight
- protégea
protégea
13,942 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « proroger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proroger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ʁɔ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « proroger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
proroger is uncommon French at frequency #86,056 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.ʁɔ.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for proroger, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is proroger, spelled P-R-O-R-O-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prolonger le temps qui avait été pris, qui avait été donné pour quelque chose.
- 2Suspendre les séances d’une assemblée et en remettre la continuation à un certain jour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how proroger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle [la petite phrase musicale] reparut, mais cette fois pour se suspendre dans l’air et se jouer un instant seulement, comme immobile, et pour expirer après. Aussi Swann ne perdait-il rien du temps si court où elle se prorogeait.
On a prorogé le délai qu’on lui avait donné.
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); 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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