prosternation
\pʁɔs.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“prosternation” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de se prosterner ; état de celui qui est prosterné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prosternation · prosternation · French
prosternation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prosternation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔs.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prosternation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prosternation is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔs.tɛʁ.na.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de se prosterner ; état de celui qui est prosterné.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for prosternation, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is prosternation, spelled P-R-O-S-T-E-R-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de se prosterner ; état de celui qui est prosterné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prosternation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En Mésopotamie par exemple, la prosternation est un principe qui exige du citoyen la loyauté au souverain, dans la plupart des sociétés hydrauliques, la prosternation est un mode social qui est toujours imposé par le souverain, c’est dans l’éducation sociétale que ce phénomène se manifeste ; un autre héritage de cette action inhumaine est l’inclinaison du…
Allons, malepeste ! relève-toi, vieillard ; je suis Anglais et je n’aime pas ces prosternations avilissantes de l’Orient.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.