protonotaire
\pʁɔ.tɔ.nɔ.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“protonotaire” is uncommon French (frequency #89,026 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,026
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prélat de la cour de Rome, qui a un degré de prééminence sur tous les notaires de la même cour, et qui reçoit les actes des consistoires publics et les expédie en forme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-protonotaire · protonotaire · French
protonotaire · rank #89,026 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,026
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH propo
Nearest frequency peer: propo (-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 « protonotaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prolongez
prolongez
10,978 corpus weight
- propagea
propagea
10,977 corpus weight
- propo
propo
10,976 corpus weight
- protonotaire
protonotaire
10,975 corpus weight
- précautionn…
précautionneusement
10,974 corpus weight
- prétoriens
prétoriens
10,973 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « protonotaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | protonotaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.tɔ.nɔ.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #89,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « protonotaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
protonotaire is uncommon French at frequency #89,026 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁɔ.tɔ.nɔ.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prélat de la cour de Rome, qui a un degré de prééminence sur tous les notaires de la même cour, et qui reçoit les actes des consistoires publics et les expédie en forme.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for protonotaire, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is protonotaire, spelled P-R-O-T-O-N-O-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Prélat de la cour de Rome, qui a un degré de prééminence sur tous les notaires de la même cour, et qui reçoit les actes des consistoires publics et les expédie en forme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how protonotaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le protonotaire Casale travaille lui aussi continuellement pour le service du roi.
Le collège des douze protonotaires participants est le premier des collèges des prélats qui ne sont pas évêques.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).