proscription

\pʁɔs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\

/\pʁɔs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“proscription” is uncommon French (frequency #81,459 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,459
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Condamnation à mort sans forme judiciaire, et qui pouvait être mise à exécution par quelque particulier que ce fût.

Corpus desk

Index FR-proscription · proscription · French

proscription · rank #81,459 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,459
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH priées

Nearest frequency peer: priées (-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 « proscription »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « proscription » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for proscription
PropertyValue
Headwordproscription
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁɔs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#81,459
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « proscription » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.proscriptiontombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « priées » (#81,458), « provider » (#81,460), « primogéniture » (#81,457). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « proscription » est au #81,459. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

proscription is uncommon French at frequency #81,459 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for proscription in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is proscription, spelled P-R-O-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Condamnation à mort sans forme judiciaire, et qui pouvait être mise à exécution par quelque particulier que ce fût.
  2. 2
    Action de proscrire une personne, bannissement.
  3. 3
    Abolition, suppression, interdiction.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how proscription appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. … ce système devait, de guerre en guerre, de proscription en proscription, de servitude en servitude, aboutir vers la fin à une dépopulation effroyable.
  2. Quelques uns, anciens massacreurs de la Saint-Barthélémy, ou bien descendants de ces bouchers qui avaient dominé Paris en 1413, ne voyait d'autre voie pour arriver à cette solution que le systèmes du duc d'Albe, les échafauds et les proscriptions.

This word in other languages

Verfemung(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "proscription"?
"proscription" is spelled P-R-O-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\.
What does "proscription" mean?
As a noun, "proscription" means: Condamnation à mort sans forme judiciaire, et qui pouvait être mise à exécution par quelque particulier que ce fût.
How do you pronounce "proscription"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "proscription" is \pʁɔs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "proscription", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pénétrations#81,467possessivité#81,450pétrodollars#81,469recommandera#81,484

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list