protagoniste
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,379
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
protagoniste is aFrenchnoun. It means: Premier acteur qui engage le dialogue avec le chœur, dans le théâtre grec antique. Pronounced \pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.nist\. Often confused with protagonistes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protagoniste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.nist\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #22,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for protagoniste is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.ta.ɡɔ.nist\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,379 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for protagoniste, with forms such as "portagoniste", "pprotagoniste", and "proatgoniste". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "protagonistes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is protagoniste, spelled P-R-O-T-A-G-O-N-I-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Premier acteur qui engage le dialogue avec le chœur, dans le théâtre grec antique.
- 2Personnage principal d’une intrigue, d’une histoire, personnage important d’une pièce de théâtre, d’un film, d’un roman.
- 3Personnage-clé dans une affaire.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: portagoniste,pprotagoniste,proatgoniste,protaggoniste,protagnoiste,protagoinste,protagoniset,protagonisste,protagonistte,protagonitse,protagonniste,protagonsite,protaogniste,protgaoniste,prottagoniste,prrotagoniste,prtoagoniste,rpotagoniste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for protagoniste
Misspelling Variants of "protagoniste"
Frequency rank: #22,379 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "protagoniste"?
What does "protagoniste" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "protagoniste"?
How do you pronounce "protagoniste"?
What language does "protagoniste" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index: