prospérer
French, verb/pʁɔs.pe.ʁe/
prospérer is spelled P-R-O-S-P-É-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 21,568th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prospérer is a French verb meaning “to thrive, prosper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être heureux, avoir la fortune favorable”.
What does prospérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to thrive, prosper
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être heureux, avoir la fortune favorable. 2. Réussir, avoir un heureux succès. 3. Se développer ; croître.
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 prospérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- prospérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- prospéré participle past
- prospère first-person indicative present
- prospères indicative present second-person
- prospérons first-person indicative plural
- prospérez indicative plural present
- prospèrent indicative plural present
- prospérais first-person imperfect indicative
- prospérait imperfect indicative singular
- prospérions first-person imperfect indicative
- prospériez imperfect indicative plural
- prospéraient imperfect indicative plural
- prospérai first-person historic indicative
- prospéras historic indicative past
- prospéra historic indicative past
- prospérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prospérer?
- /pʁɔs.pe.ʁe/
- \pʁɔs.pe.ʁe\
- [pʁɔs.pe.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prospérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prospérer in French?
prospérer appears 1.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).