protected
\pɹəˈtɛkt.ɪd\
The verdict
“protected” is uncommon French (frequency #86,057 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,057
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit du verbe to protect.
Corpus desk
Index FR-protected · protected · French
protected · rank #86,057 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,057
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH proroger
Nearest frequency peer: proroger (-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 « protected »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pronto
pronto
13,947 corpus weight
- proroger
proroger
13,945 corpus weight
- protected
protected
13,944 corpus weight
- protestait
protestait
13,943 corpus weight
- protégea
protégea
13,942 corpus weight
- prouvons
prouvons
13,941 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « protected » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protected |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɹəˈtɛkt.ɪd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « protected » en français
Rare enough to double-check
protected is uncommon French at frequency #86,057 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɹəˈtɛkt.ɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for protected, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is protected, spelled P-R-O-T-E-C-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit du verbe to protect.
- 2Participe passé du verbe to protect.
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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