prosterner
\pʁɔs.tɛʁ.ne\
The verdict
“prosterner” is uncommon French (frequency #55,527 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,527
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Renverser ; mettre aux pieds de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prosterner · prosterner · French
prosterner · rank #55,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,527
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH précédait
Nearest frequency peer: précédait (+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 « prosterner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- procurait
procurait
44,477 corpus weight
- pronos
pronos
44,476 corpus weight
- prosterner
prosterner
44,474 corpus weight
- précédait
précédait
44,473 corpus weight
- prématurées
prématurées
44,472 corpus weight
- prépositions
prépositions
44,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prosterner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prosterner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔs.tɛʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prosterner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prosterner is uncommon French at frequency #55,527 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔs.tɛʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Renverser ; mettre aux pieds de.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for prosterner in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is prosterner, spelled P-R-O-S-T-E-R-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Renverser ; mettre aux pieds de.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prosterner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je verserai l’oubli sur les Dieux, mes aînés, Et je prosternerai leurs fronts découronnés, Parmi les blocs épars de l’Orient torride, Plus bas que l’herbe vile et la poussière aride ; Et pour l’éternité, sous l’Eau vive des cieux, Le bon grain germera dans le fumier des Dieux !
Et, vivement impressionné par la noblesse réelle du spectacle, je ne pus m’empêcher de mêler ma voix aux acclamations enthousiastes des croyants prosternés.
Synonyms
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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