prosélyte
French, noun/pʁo.ze.lit/
prosélyte is spelled P-R-O-S-É-L-Y-T-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 68,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prosélyte is a French masculine noun meaning “proselyte” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne convertie du paganisme au judaïsme”.
What does prosélyte mean in English?
adjective
- 1
proselytic
noun
- 1
masculineproselyte
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui cherche à convertir. 2. Relatif au prosélytisme. 3. Qui cherche à convertir, hors religion.
noun: 1. Personne convertie du paganisme au judaïsme. 2. Personne nouvellement convertie au catholicisme. 3. Disciple ou personne nouvellement convertie à une cause, à une idée. 4. Partisan enthousiaste, voire fanatique.
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 prosélyte
- prosélytes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prosélyte?
- /pʁo.ze.lit/
- \pʁɔ.ze.lit\
- \pʁo.ze.lit\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prosélyte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prosélyte in French?
prosélyte appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).