prostré
\pʁɔs.tʁe\
The verdict
“prostré” is uncommon French (frequency #74,300 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,300
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui est dans un état de prostration.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prostré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔs.tʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prostré” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
prostré is uncommon French at frequency #74,300 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔs.tʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for prostré in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is prostré, spelled P-R-O-S-T-R-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est dans un état de prostration.
- 2Se dit du port de végétaux qui sont couchés sur le sol.
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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Using “prostré”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-O-S-T-R-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.