proscrite
\pʁɔs.kʁit\
The verdict
“proscrite” is uncommon French (frequency #67,020 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,020
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme bannie, qui doit, par force de loi, quitter un pays.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proscrite · proscrite · French
proscrite · rank #67,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,020
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prosaïquement
Nearest frequency peer: prosaïquement (-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 « proscrite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- priceless
priceless
32,984 corpus weight
- privait
privait
32,983 corpus weight
- prosaïqueme…
prosaïquement
32,982 corpus weight
- proscrite
proscrite
32,981 corpus weight
- protein
protein
32,979 corpus weight
- prurit
prurit
32,978 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « proscrite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proscrite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔs.kʁit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « proscrite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
proscrite is uncommon French at frequency #67,020 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔs.kʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme bannie, qui doit, par force de loi, quitter un pays.".
No misspelling variants are generated for proscrite in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is proscrite, spelled P-R-O-S-C-R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Femme bannie, qui doit, par force de loi, quitter un pays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how proscrite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Où aurait-elle vécu, sinon aux landes sauvages, l’infortunée qu’on poursuivit tellement, la maudite, la proscrite, l’empoisonneuse qui guérissait, sauvait?
Plus tard intervint l’ordonnance d’Orléans (1560) qui supprimait les maisons closes. Expulsées de Beaucaire, les proscrites se transportèrent en masse à Avignon où la police française ne pouvait les atteindre.
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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