protocole
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,066
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
protocole is aFrenchnoun. It means: Recueil des formules prescrites pour la rédaction des actes publics. Pronounced \pʁɔ.tɔ.kɔl\. It ranks #5,066 in French word frequency. Often confused with protocoles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protocole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.tɔ.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for protocole is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɔ.tɔ.kɔl\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,066 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for protocole, with forms such as "portocole", "pprotocole", and "prootcole". 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, "protocoles", 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 protocole, spelled P-R-O-T-O-C-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recueil des formules prescrites pour la rédaction des actes publics.
- 2Recueil des formules en usage pour la correspondance officielle ou privée, selon la hiérarchie sociale des correspondants.
- 3Bon usage, politesse.
- 4Recueil des formules consacrées pour la rédaction des instruments diplomatiques, conventions, traités, lettres de créance, déclarations, etc.
- 5Procès-verbal authentique d’une conférence, d’un congrès.
- 6Texte additionnel annexé à un traité.
- 7Recueil des règles établies pour les honneurs et les préséances dans les cérémonies officielles.
- 8Service du ministère des affaires étrangères où se traitent les questions protocolaires.
- 9Ensemble des règles à respecter pour communiquer, par exemple entre un PC et une imprimante.
- 10Procès-verbal, compte-rendu d’une séance (en allemand : Protokoll).
- 11Ensemble des conventions nécessaires pour faire coopérer des entités généralement distantes, en particulier pour établir et entretenir des échanges d’informations entre ces entités.
- 12Processus d’intervention à suivre pour la gestion de quelque chose, préalablement établi.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: portocole,pprotocole,prootcole,protcoole,protoccole,protocloe,protocoel,protocolle,protoocle,prottocole,prrotocole,prtoocole,rpotocole
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for protocole
Misspelling Variants of "protocole"
Frequency rank: #5,066 in French
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