proserpine
\pʁɔ.zɛʁ.pin\
The verdict
“proserpine” is uncommon French (frequency #77,819 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,819
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insecte lépidoptère de la famille des papilionidés, papillon diurne vivement coloré (noir, jaune, et rouge), et sans queue aux ailes postérieures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proserpine · proserpine · French
proserpine · rank #77,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,819
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH profanée
Nearest frequency peer: profanée (-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 « proserpine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- princip
princip
22,185 corpus weight
- profanée
profanée
22,183 corpus weight
- proserpine
proserpine
22,182 corpus weight
- protocolair…
protocolaires
22,181 corpus weight
- prove
prove
22,179 corpus weight
- proximités
proximités
22,178 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « proserpine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proserpine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.zɛʁ.pin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « proserpine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
proserpine is uncommon French at frequency #77,819 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.zɛʁ.pin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Insecte lépidoptère de la famille des papilionidés, papillon diurne vivement coloré (noir, jaune, et rouge), et sans queue aux ailes postérieures.".
No misspelling variants are generated for proserpine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is proserpine, spelled P-R-O-S-E-R-P-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Insecte lépidoptère de la famille des papilionidés, papillon diurne vivement coloré (noir, jaune, et rouge), et sans queue aux ailes postérieures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how proserpine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La chenille de la proserpine se nourrit sur des aristoloches.
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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