prosélyte
\pʁɔ.ze.lit\
The verdict
“prosélyte” is uncommon French (frequency #68,569 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,569
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui cherche à convertir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proselyte · prosélyte · French
prosélyte · rank #68,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,569
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proses
Nearest frequency peer: proses (-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 « prosélyte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- profitais
profitais
31,435 corpus weight
- programming
programming
31,434 corpus weight
- proses
proses
31,433 corpus weight
- prosélyte
prosélyte
31,432 corpus weight
- Protest
Protest
31,431 corpus weight
- prototypage
prototypage
31,429 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prosélyte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prosélyte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ze.lit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prosélyte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prosélyte is uncommon French at frequency #68,569 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔ.ze.lit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for prosélyte, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prosélyte, spelled P-R-O-S-É-L-Y-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui cherche à convertir.
- 2Relatif au prosélytisme.
- 3Qui cherche à convertir, hors religion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prosélyte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un discours prosélyte.
Un éditeur, c'est un lecteur plus prosélyte que les autres !
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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