prostituer

\pʁɔs.ti.tɥe\

/\pʁɔs.ti.tɥe\/ verb

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The verdict

“prostituer” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,220. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,220
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vendre ou louer une personne à un tiers, généralement un homme, pour la jouissance sexuelle personnelle de ce dernier.

Corpus desk

Index FR-prostituer · prostituer · French

prostituer · rank #35,220 · 15 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,220
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH prospères

Nearest frequency peer: prospères (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « prostituer »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « prostituer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

prostituer vs prostitués
80% similar
prostituer vs prostituée
80% similar
prostituer vs prostituées
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for prostituer
PropertyValue
Headwordprostituer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɔs.ti.tɥe\
Letters10
Frequency rank#35,220
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prostituer »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).prostituerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « prospères » (#35,219), « prompts » (#35,218), « provoquera » (#35,222). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prostituer » est au #35,220. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around prostituer (IPA \pʁɔs.ti.tɥe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,220 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for prostituer, with forms such as "porstituer", "pprostituer", and "prosittuer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "prostitués", "prostituée", "prostituées", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored 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 prostituer, spelled P-R-O-S-T-I-T-U-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vendre ou louer une personne à un tiers, généralement un homme, pour la jouissance sexuelle personnelle de ce dernier.
  2. 2
    Ravaler, déshonorer par un usage indigne, avilir, dégrader.
  3. 3
    Avoir un rapport sexuel contre rémunération, vendre l’accès sexuel à son propre corps à autrui.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how prostituer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il m’a prostituée pendant neuf mois. Il avait une armoire de fringues pour femmes complètement dingue. Il « m’apprenait » les techniques, il me rabaissait systématiquement, il me disait que je faisais tout mal, il me faisait mal, il me disait d’apprécier la douleur comme plaisir, ou d’apprendre à faire avec.
  2. Elle prostitue sa fille. — Elle l’a prostituée pour de l’argent à un vieillard dépravé.

This word in other languages

prostitute(English)prostituir(Español)huren(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • porstituer
  • pprostituer
  • prosittuer
  • prosstituer
  • prostiteur
  • prostittuer
  • prostituerr
  • prostiture
  • prostiuter
  • prosttituer
  • prosttiuer
  • protsituer
  • prrostituer
  • prsotituer
  • rpostituer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prostituer - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

porstituer2pprostituer1prosittuer2prosstituer1prostiteur2prostittuer1prostituerr1prostiture2
Edit distance from "prostituer"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prostituer"?
"prostituer" is spelled P-R-O-S-T-I-T-U-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɔs.ti.tɥe\.
What does "prostituer" mean?
As a verb, "prostituer" means: Vendre ou louer une personne à un tiers, généralement un homme, pour la jouissance sexuelle personnelle de ce dernier.
What words are commonly confused with "prostituer"?
"prostituer" is commonly confused with "prostitués", "prostituée", "prostituées". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prostituer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prostituer" is \pʁɔs.ti.tɥe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prostituer" come from?
"prostituer" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prostituer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

provoquera#35,222proclamant#35,217privatiser#35,215pellicules#35,201

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

prospères15 variantsremercient15 variantsnéologisme15 variantssinguliers15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list