prospecteurs
\pʁɔs.pɛk.tœʁ\
The verdict
“prospecteurs” is uncommon French (frequency #70,970 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,970
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de prospecteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prospecteurs · prospecteurs · French
prospecteurs · rank #70,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,970
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Protée
Nearest frequency peer: Protée (+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 « prospecteurs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Prisca
Prisca
29,034 corpus weight
- Pristina
Pristina
29,033 corpus weight
- prospecteurs
prospecteurs
29,031 corpus weight
- Protée
Protée
29,030 corpus weight
- provincia
provincia
29,029 corpus weight
- prépayée
prépayée
29,028 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prospecteurs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prospecteurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔs.pɛk.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #70,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prospecteurs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prospecteurs is uncommon French at frequency #70,970 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔs.pɛk.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de prospecteur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for prospecteurs in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prospecteurs, spelled P-R-O-S-P-E-C-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de prospecteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prospecteurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Exemple de cartes transmises par le CMS aux navires prospecteurs germoniers (campagne 1984)
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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