prosper

/\pros.per\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,489

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

prosper is anFrenchadj. It means: Variante de prosperus. Pronounced \pros.per\. Often confused with prouver and prospère.

Key facts for prosper
PropertyValue
Headwordprosper
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\pros.per\
Letters7
Frequency rank#29,489
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of prosper in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prosper is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pros.per\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,489 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Variante de prosperus.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for prosper, with forms such as "porsper", "pprosper", and "propser". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "prouver", "prospère", "prospérer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is prosper, spelled P-R-O-S-P-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante de prosperus.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: porsper,pprosper,propser,prosepr,prosperr,prospper,prospre,prossper,prrosper,prsoper,rposper

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prosper

Misspelling Variants of "prosper"

porsper7pprosper8propser7prosepr7prosperr8prospper8prospre7prossper8
Misspelling Variants of "prosper"

Frequency rank: #29,489 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prosper"?
"prosper" is spelled P-R-O-S-P-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pros.per\.
What does "prosper" mean?
As an adj, "prosper" means: Variante de prosperus.
What words are commonly confused with "prosper"?
"prosper" is commonly confused with "prouver", "prospère", "prospérer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prosper"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prosper" is \pros.per\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prosper" come from?
"prosper" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.