protégea
\pʁɔ.te.ʒa\
The verdict
“protégea” is uncommon French (frequency #86,059 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,059
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de protéger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-protegea · protégea · French
protégea · rank #86,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,059
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH protestait
Nearest frequency peer: protestait (-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 « protégea »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- provoqueront
provoqueront
13,940 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « protégea » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protégea |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.te.ʒa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « protégea » en français
Rare enough to double-check
protégea is uncommon French at frequency #86,059 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɔ.te.ʒa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de protéger.".
No misspelling variants are generated for protégea in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is protégea, spelled P-R-O-T-É-G-E-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de protéger.
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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