proscription
\pʁɔs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“proscription” is an uncommon French word, ranked #81,459 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #81,459
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Condamnation à mort sans forme judiciaire, et qui pouvait être mise à exécution par quelque particulier que ce fût.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proscription |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #81,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “proscription” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for proscription is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔs.kʁip.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #81,459 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1Condamnation à mort sans forme judiciaire, et qui pouvait être mise à exécution par quelque particulier que ce fût.
- 2Action de proscrire une personne, bannissement.
- 3Abolition, suppression, interdiction.
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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Using “proscription”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-O-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.