prostré
\pʁɔs.tʁe\
The verdict
“prostré” is uncommon French (frequency #74,300 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,300
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est dans un état de prostration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prostre · prostré · French
prostré · rank #74,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,300
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prospectif
Nearest frequency peer: prospectif (-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 « prostré »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- professione…
professionelle
25,704 corpus weight
- prospectif
prospectif
25,702 corpus weight
- prostré
prostré
25,701 corpus weight
- prêcha
prêcha
25,700 corpus weight
- pubiens
pubiens
25,699 corpus weight
- pucelles
pucelles
25,698 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « prostré » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « prostré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prostré is uncommon French at frequency #74,300 among 6,826 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prostré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors Violetta se roula sur le parquet, se tordit, cria, supplia, menaça, et enfin, brisée, couverte de sueur, s'affaissa, prostrée, sans souffle.
Tant que l'homme est comprimé, tant que la contrainte des iniquités sociales le maintient prostré, l'on est en droit d'espérer beaucoup de l'inéclos qu'il porte en lui.
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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