protéiforme
\pʁɔ.te.i.fɔʁm\
The verdict
“protéiforme” is uncommon French (frequency #71,824 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,824
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est susceptible de prendre les formes les plus différentes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proteiforme · protéiforme · French
protéiforme · rank #71,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,824
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prosélytes
Nearest frequency peer: prosélytes (-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 « protéiforme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prostatique
prostatique
28,180 corpus weight
- prostituent
prostituent
28,179 corpus weight
- prosélytes
prosélytes
28,178 corpus weight
- protéiforme
protéiforme
28,177 corpus weight
- prudentiel
prudentiel
28,176 corpus weight
- prébendes
prébendes
28,175 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « protéiforme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protéiforme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.te.i.fɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #71,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « protéiforme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
protéiforme is uncommon French at frequency #71,824 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pʁɔ.te.i.fɔʁm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est susceptible de prendre les formes les plus différentes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for protéiforme in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is protéiforme, spelled P-R-O-T-É-I-F-O-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est susceptible de prendre les formes les plus différentes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how protéiforme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
PROTÉIFORME, adj., proteiformis (proteus, Protée, forma, forme) ; qui change à chaque instant de forme. Ex. Difflugia proteiformis.
La navigation sur la côte Est du Groenland est considérée à juste titre comme une des plus protéiformes et aléatoires […]
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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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