prosodie
\pʁɔ.zɔ.di\
The verdict
“prosodie” is uncommon French (frequency #67,796 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,796
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prononciation régulière des mots conformément à l’accent et à la quantité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prosodie · prosodie · French
prosodie · rank #67,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,796
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH propylène
Nearest frequency peer: propylène (-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 « prosodie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- propagandes
propagandes
32,207 corpus weight
- propylène
propylène
32,206 corpus weight
- prosodie
prosodie
32,205 corpus weight
- protoxyde
protoxyde
32,204 corpus weight
- prunelles
prunelles
32,203 corpus weight
- préconçue
préconçue
32,202 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prosodie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prosodie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.zɔ.di\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prosodie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prosodie is uncommon French at frequency #67,796 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.zɔ.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for prosodie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prosodie, spelled P-R-O-S-O-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Prononciation régulière des mots conformément à l’accent et à la quantité.
- 2Aspects non purement verbaux d’une langue (variations d’intensité et de débit, variations de hauteur (ton et intonation), variations de durée (accentuation et rythme).
- 3Connaissance des règles de la quantité en grec et en latin et, plus généralement, des règles de la versification en toutes langues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prosodie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est qu'on n'a jamais voulu admettre dans les livres des vers composés sans souci de la rime, de la prosodie et de la syntaxe.
On crie et on chante. Le boulangisme engendre toute une littérature de chansons - souvent d'une prosodie peu heureuse.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).