prosaïsme
French, noun\pʁɔ.za.ism\
prosaïsme is spelled P-R-O-S-A-Ï-S-M-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 44 million words in written French, the 209,747th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prosaïsme is a French masculine noun meaning “mundanity, prosaicness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Défaut de la poésie qui contient un trop grand nombre de tours et d’expressions appartenant à la prose”.
What does prosaïsme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemundanity, prosaicness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Défaut de la poésie qui contient un trop grand nombre de tours et d’expressions appartenant à la prose. 2. Ce qui a un caractère prosaïque.
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 prosaïsme
- prosaïsmes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prosaïsme?
- \pʁɔ.za.ism\
- [pʁɔ.za.ism]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is prosaïsme in French?
prosaïsme appears about once in every 44 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).